<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hey, that's great!</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is a pretty good Open Source mapping and directions app called Organic Maps. It is available on the F-Store, and is based on Open Street Maps, allows fully offline maps. It does not require Google Play Services, and you can decide whether to give it access to your location data. I trust it, and the data is very good (at least for my area pedestrian travels). OSM has come a long way.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I didn't mention Signal, but it is the one comms app I allow in my Owner User, and it has its own push notification platform. Signal is, of course, Open Source, heavily encrypted, and run by a privacy non-profit.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I'd love to trade more tips. I'm sure you've already discovered things I have not.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-braddock</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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On Saturday, June 14th, 2025 at 10:56 PM, Tux Lab via SGVLUG <sgvlug@sgvlug.net> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Got my Pixel9a (made in Vietnam) on Friday and installed Graphene OS. The cli instructions guide is fairly straight forward. Per the presentation, I set up a different user profile for the few communication apps I used. I seldom use turn by turn navigation so web based google maps via duckduckgo app is good enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Took my new phone for a stroll downtown this morning and left before the fireworks began. My cell provider certainly knows where I went, but Google doesn't have my sensor data.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM Braddock via SGVLUG <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span>We will meet for dinner and a presentation at IHOP next Thursday, June 12th at</span><div><span>880 S. Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena, CA.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>Optional dinner and socializing will begin at 7pm with the presentation </span></div><div><span>starting around 7:45.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>This month, "John Locke" is presenting:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><b>Adventures in Graphene OS and Digital Privacy</b></span></div><div><br></div><div><span><i>For the past year I have undertaken an adventure in enhancing my online </i></span></div><div><span><i>privacy. From Graphene OS on my phone, to the use of Crypto for payments, and</i></span></div><div><span><i>secure alternatives for email, browsing, and other services, I will share my</i></span></div><div><span><i>discoveries, tips, and tidbits.</i></span></div><div><br></div><div><span>---</span></div><span></span><br></div>
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