I Tried the "Criminal’s" Phone of Choice for a Month is Linus’s deep dive into GrapheneOS, the open-source Android fork designed to crush corporate spyware and bloat. Over a month he swaps out Google Play for F-Droid and Aurora, pokes at the OS’s ironclad sandboxing, and measures performance gains against the quirks of living without native Google services.
He pokes fun at weird auto-features that refuse to play nice, weighs real-world usability, and asks whether a truly private phone is worth the trade-offs—proving that privacy can feel a lot like power, if you’re willing to live without your favorite apps.
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