There was a recent related discussion on Hacker News and the top comment discusses why this sort of solution is not likely to be the best fit for smaller organizations. In short, doing it well requires time and effort from someone technically sophisticated, who must do more than the bare minimum for good results, as you just learned.

Even then, it’s likely to be less reliable than solutions hosted by big corporations and when there’s a problem, it’s your problem. I don’t want to discourage you, but understand what you’re committing to and make sure you have adequate buy-in in your organization.

I’m inclined to agree, and said so in the linked thread.

Lemmy thread and link.

Basically, anyone who can read your home directory could decrypt your Signal database. That’s about typical of traditional desktop applications, but questionable for security-oriented software. Mac OS and (sometimes) Linux have more robust credential management options, and Signal signaled (yes, pun intended) its intent to adopt them.

Since 2014, but Android had already been out for six years at that point.

We had several years of Android that mostly wasn’t. Now it’s hard work to get Android that isn’t.

The whole tech world saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario, but was quiet ten years later when Apple and Google did the same thing to our phones. That was a mistake.

That’s probably what everyone using Lemmy would prefer to do, but some people believe it would negatively impact their ability to stay in touch with friends or family.

I suspect bad faith any time a company doesn’t do it the Pixel way (dev settings and fastboot unlock).

HMD also doesn’t provide any mechanism for unlocking the bootloader

This is the part that’s inexcusable.

Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.

Needs more headphone jack.

I’m pretty satisfied with my 4a. Are there any downgrades between the two generations?

Mobile check deposit is the only thing I want from my bank’s app.

I’m running LineageOS with Magisk and Play Integrity Fix. That works for my bank’s app, but I’m annoyed that they make me do it and gave their app a 1-star review on Google Play for it.

Telegram isn’t open source, so I don’t think you’re going to find forks of it.

I stand corrected. Telegram’s client is open source (GPL) and what OP is asking for is reasonable.

Has anyone you talk to regularly asked you to install a specific messaging app? If so, do you actually see a downside to installing it?

If you want actual help with these issues, try the GrapheneOS forum.

I’ve found gos extremely frustrating

Some parts of this are probably unavoidable. High-security systems tend to be inconvenient, and using a non-mainstream operating system often means limited third-party support.

I’m facing the nearly insurmountable task of convincing my friends, family, and colleagues to download and use signal when they are all using encrypted iMessage.

For reasons I can’t figure out, it seems Americans hate the idea of installing any third-party messaging apps. Most Europeans I know have at least two.

Most of my banking apps just simply do not work.

There’s some information on the GrahpeneOS forum, but if the bank insists on using Google’s device attestation, you may not be able to do much other than raise hell with customer service (please do this).

This is one of the reasons I run LineageOS rooted with Magisk; there’s a bypass for Google attestation. That, of course does not have the same security-first goals as GrapheneOS.

Holding down on the space bar to move the text cursor between characters.

This feature exists on some Android keyboards including AOSP keyboard and Heliboard, which are open source.

Phones also have web browsers, and Instagram is usable that way (several years ago, it was not). It is possible that privacy protections will look like automated behaviors to their systems.

Using an app on a device that’s used for little else and has minimal data stored and apps installed on it also limits the potential for data leaks, though probably not as effectively as the browser, particularly when your browser is Mull.

I don’t think Instagram can read your Matrix conversations, but may be able to predict your interests with fancy algorithms or buying information from data brokers, even if it’s related to things you did on another device.

If you want to be more sure it’s not spying on your phone, uninstall the app and use it through your web browser.

What killed it?

I don’t think there’s a single correct size for a phone. Different people want different things; many want huge phones with screens over 7" while some of us think the Pixel 4a is too big.

My phone got an update on July 18. LineageOS is great.