Hellmo_luciferrari @ Hellmo_Luciferrari @lemm.ee

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I would have given DivestOS a shot if I was on a Pixel 7 Pro, because that's what I wanted instead of the 8 Pro, but necessity dictated I bought one because I can't be without one for very long.

I will keep an eye on Diveset, but it is looking like I may go back to what I had setup on my 7: LineageOS, rooted, with my necessary tweaks. At least I like tweaking things, so there is that.

On my 7 Pro, Android Auto worked great. Since flashing GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 I have had no such luck.

I know it's overkill, I was running AdAway as root, with a Wireguard connection to my home VPN, which was running behind a PiHole instance, along with uBlock Origin, and a few other measures of blocking like AFWall+. But I may just go the route of using PiHole as my adblocking solution (along with my own unbound DNS server.)

Though, you have piqued my interest with Blocky, as I have had some issues with PiHole that I am not wanting to troubleshoot at the moment.

I may have to fine tune my uBlock in order to block advertisements from video (and luckily with Mull I have been able to use SponsorBlock successfully.)

The video advertisements that haven't been blocked are on other video hosts that I have found for various purposes, but maybe with fine tuning my uBlock, and having blocky, or PiHole, or AdGuard home (although if I am being honest, I am avoiding anything that isn't open source as much as possible.)

I know my preferences and use cases are niche, but I really do appreciate the conversation around this! Thank you so much!

Mull is my current browser of choice, so I like that idea. I will have to give DivestOS a shot. Thank you! It doesn't look like the Pixel 8 Pro is supported by DivestOS, at least not from a quick glance. I will have to look into potentially what it would take to build it for it though.

I may have to give that a shot. Thank you!

I love GrapheneOS, but it falls short on any adblocking outside the scope of my browser. I have also had issues using PrivateDNS on GrapheneOS. It seems to kill my network connection.

I can't seem to get away from Nova Launcher because of some features that no open source launchers seem to have, and with Nova being bought out by Branch a number of years ago, it made me uncomfortable giving telemetry and other data to them since they are an analytics company, so introduce AFWall+, I can restrict access to network for Nova. I am doing the same thing with GrapheneOS, so a firewall for that exact issue isn't exactly a worry or a problem for me.

I still use Ublock with my browsers of choice on any android based OS, but the problem that I am having is that for videos, Ublock doesn't seem to block any of the video ads for me.

The big reasson for AdAway for me was because it was root based and didn't hijack my DNS, which also allowed me to VPN into my home network so that I could work on some projects on machines there because I don't have any ports exposed to access such services outside of the ports needed for me to connect to my VPN.

Thank you for the suggestion! However, I have used GrapheneOS. And I am a fan, and it could absolutely fulfil most of my needs. However there are a few things that it can't accomplish for me unfortunately.

There are Magisk Modules I use that I couldn't get loaded on GrapheneOS without massive hassle. I also don't want to live without AdAway, App Manager,Pixel IMS, AFWall+, amongst other apps.

I ran GrapheneOS before they supported Android Auto, and for a while after they had put that in. I just don't think it would exactly fit my current wants and needs.

As far as AdAway I totally understand that I could use a local VPN service to accomplish similar and block ads that way, however that would take away from my ability to connect to my home network and block ads.

I know my use case is rather fringe.

Any help is welcomed, so thank you!

Just disable the driver for touch input

Legal windows keys aren't $3. And not using windows Isn't all about price. But you dont seem to get that I suppose.

No attack here. I'm not attacking you. I'm stating that you likely just dont hsve the knowledge on the topic.

I didnt read every comment here.

What issues are you having? What distro are tou using? Whst games aren't working?

Any supporting details would help me potentially help you.

Not being able to run "most" games on Linux is a skill issue. If you wsnt to use windows fine, I won't stop you. But you are spewing a bunch of anecdotal nonsense.

You want to use a subpar paid for OS with telemetry, ads, and to support a greedy corporation for your convenience; Thats your prerogative.

At least educate yourself before you speak on topics you lack greater understanding of.

Alright, who's gonna dig for the key?

To add to this, another piece of this is: who are you that would make someone consider your picks over some other Joe schmoe ? Not saying your opinion doesn't matter, but what I'm saying is what would make your opinion hold any weight to anyone reading? Your reasoning may help, but you didnt give that.

Posting tier lists with no context isnt helpful...

Without going into details on why you rank each distro the way you did, its just useless and baseless... Not helpful to anyone, at all, for any reason. Am I going to consult it for my next project? Absolutely not. I implore folks to do their own research and testing for their use case.

I can use private DNS but I need the DNS records in my personally hosted VPN to access my other self hosted solutions. So my use case is niche.

Currently I run a rooted phone AdAway Wireguard AFWall+

I need apps split tunnel between my VPN and outside of it. Apps running through VPN need to have my DNS Where the other apps I still want ad-blocking

I'm afraid that won't quite work for me due to needing my VPN on, and set for split tunneling.

If I had AdAway (root mode, not VPN mode) I would switch back to GrapheneOS

Yeah, have never been a fan of Brave. Not shocked.

Yeah, I use AFWall+ and restrict granularly beyond just launcher.

I must block all network access to Nova.