paradox2011

You're doing the lord's work 🫡

Sure is. Here's the github. I ran it for awhile a year or so go. It was good.

These are the kind of subtleties that people often miss, thank you for expressing them.

You end your comment by saying...

"Which makes one wonder why CalyxOS, with an entire team behind it, doesn't follow the same example"

When you already answered your question in the beginning...

"To understand the purpose of CalyxOS, you must understand the purpose of the project, of course"

If you compare CalyxOS to DivestOS or GrapheneOS, then you've missed the point of CalyxOS, "the purpose of the project". They are intended for different people, though there is some overlap. CalyxOS respects FOSS much more than does GrapheneOS, and to me that's a very valuable thing. They tighten privacy, but are not as focused on security alterations beyond stock android, beyond making it less leaky when it comes to personal data, which in its own way is a reinforcement of security.

Also, DivestOS has "divested" itself of participation in the privacy/security game and stopped all development. It's sad, but I'm happy that the developer is getting to live his life to a fuller degree now. He contributed a lot of value to the open source world in the past.

Thanks for the TL;DR, I figured it would be a uneducated take, you saved me the time of watching it 🫡

I had a feeling it was the same model, your description was a little too familiar 😉😄. "Perfect is the enemy of good" is a fantastic quote to live by! WebDAV is also super awesome, I rely on it pretty heavily. Keep fighting the good fight, it feels good to live by principles even if it's in an imperfect world.

I know the pain of too much privacy awareness 😅 it becomes a background distress that follows you everywhere in the digital world. It is just some strangers opinion, but to me it sounds like you've done great in limiting and managing the information gathering big tech is able to do on you, celebrate that!

Regarding the tablet, this is a bit similar to my situation. I bought a Lenovo Legion y700 with the Chinese ROM. You've already done much of the work, but there's two more steps that gave me some piece of mind.

1. Universal Android Debloater. It'll guide you through removing whatever extra stuff the manufacturer put on that you don't want. It's great.
2. Netguard. This will let you see all the apps and services that are making calls out, and what they are calling. Then you can simply block what you want and deny access to the internet for any proprietary app.

Lastly, yeah I'd log in to Aurora, download your paid apps as APKs not only for installation but then also to keep as a backup for any device transfers in the future. Sometimes the app itself wants Google play services installed in order to check your license status, so that may keep some from working unfortunately. Then log back out and enjoy the tablet! You're doing good work, don't feel like you have to have the perfect set up to benefit from privacy concious behavior 🥳

I'd suggest looking in to it farther. The commenter above basically covered it, but no, beeper is not all closed source. Their hosted server has never been open source, but all the self-hosted bridges have been, and continue to be. You can run your own, open source, self-hosted beeper server, just like you've always been able to. There's nothing embrace, extend extinguish about that.

Where did you read that? The github pages are all still open and receiving updates, you can still self-host the bridges and its under the apache-2.0 license, just like it's always been.

Sadly it doesn't 🥲. Copying app data is the hardest part of the process without a system level backup like seedvault, neobackup or traditional google backup services.

Only if you're currently running stock android.

NeoBackup is the only one I've run across that seems to really fill the role of backup and restore thoroughly. The trouble is, in order to work it needs root, so I've never actually been able to try it. Almost reason enough to root in my book 😅, I love a good back up system.

Seedvault is another fairly well developed option, but it needs to be hardcoded in to the OS by the ROM developer.

You'll probably benefit from a series of different backup apps in combination. Here's a few that I've used and benefited from:

SMS import/export - backs up all SMS, MMS, call logs and contacts. Does not backup RCS.

Applist backup - back up your installed app list. This includes data on where you installed the app from and where you can get it again along with other useful info. The apps still have to manually installed.

Aside from those two, most FOSS apps include a backup and restore function, such as: signal, neo launcher, fossify calendar, newpipe, metro (music player), aegis (2 factor), obtainium, etc...

I hope this helps. I tend to tinker and install various ROMs, so am well aquainted with the pain of setting up a fresh OS without a system wide backup program. Its not as bad as it seems though, and as long as you get your messages, contacts and call logs moved over it goes pretty smooth.