A last-gen refurbished pixel + GrapheneOS has been my go-to for years now. Gives me all the polished featured of flagship hardware with regular security updates and privacy.
Bonus points, the google play compatibility shim means you can run 99% of apps that are on the play store.
Just test the refurbished phone thoroughly on the stock os in case you need to swap it out.
yeah, I haven’t done much with music that’s not in English. You can also look up the album in the musicbrainz database as well to see how it’s listed there before you stick Picard on it.
Also another helpful resource when I was learning how to arrange my libraries…
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/music
Also note that the music library in Jellyfin has a preferred language option that might apply here.
Use Picard to correct missing metadata, album art, and file name / structure.
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
I’ve had zero issues scrapping my music library since doing this.
Just make sure to review the settings in Picard to set up file naming conventions how you want it before you start.
Generally agreed, I would actually try using as many services with their progressive web apps.
The main reason I think they may need google services is the banking app. Mine will refuse to launch without google services installed.
You sound like the ideal candidate for a refurbished Pixel 7 / 8 from amazon.
Test its hardware thoroughly on the stock os in case you need to return it.
Install GrapheneOS using the Web installer.
Install Droid-ify into your main profile from the f-droid web page. It looks much better than the official f-droid client and actually has a working auto-update
Create a work profile. I use an app called Shelter as the work profile admin app. This allows you to auto freeze your big-tech apps to help with battery life / privacy. Install google services from the built-in GrapheneOS app store.
Enjoy.
I’ve been using Linode (now owned by Akamai) for a couple years now and have enjoyed their pricing / service.
You are correct, a VPN connection does not bridge to another profile. You can install a VPN in said work profile. The always-on VPN settings in grapheneos have the work icon to indicate what VPN is in your work profile.
That’s most likely the problem. In my experience, nearly all tor exit nodes are flagged as such and captchas are nearly impossible to “pass” when using such an exit node. I would try using a free VPN to test. Try protonvpn without an account and see if you can get past the captcha.
Are you using a VPN? It might be that changing your exit IP might help. I’ve noticed captchas get harder to pass if your on a VPN that has a lot of traffic trying to pass captchas. Probably DDoS protection.
Thanks! Flatpak-KCM is perfect as I’m thinking I’ll move to fedora KDE in a couple days when f40 drops. I’m hoping that the Wayland experience on NVIDIA GPUs will be smoother there than on GNOME.
To add on to this, if you are using flatpak apps and want granular permission control, check out flatseal. Fedora (IMO) has one of the best flatpak integrations out of the box. Other “sandboxing” or containerized app deployments are snaps (made by Canonical), and appimage (I’m not entirely sure this qualifies as an app container).
From my experience, flatpaks is currently leading in adoption when compared to the other two.
https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.SoundJuicer
I then run the album through Picard to make sure all the tagging is correct.
I believe you can… I have google maps installed and disabled (frozen) by default in case I absolutely need to use it.