GrapheneOS Tablet: 1 Year Update and All the Apps I Use

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://intheshellpodcast.com - In the Shell Podcast https://yellowball.fm - 🟡 Yellowball, no BS podcast hosting https://grapheneos.org/ - GrapheneOS Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. So after a year, I figured it was finally time to put out an update on my Pixel Tablet experience running GrapheneOS. Spoiler alert: my original video had some high ambitions of replacing my laptop and taking this with me when I travel, along with a keyboard and things like that. None of that happened—it didn’t work out. But if you’re curious as to why, keep watching. If all you wanted was that quick answer, there you go, and I’ll see you next time. ...

September 2, 2024 · 8 min · 1692 words · Josh

How to set up Duress PIN/Password on GrapheneOS

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/features#duress - GrapheneOS Duress PIN/Password documentation https://monogr.ph/665ae7b0571fecfdc8c3bdb0/ - QA of GrapheneOS Duress PIN/Password feature https://yellowball.fm - 🟡 Yellowball, no BS podcast hosting Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. I finally found my battery, so I can start recording videos again. The feature I want to talk about today is the duress PIN/password feature that GrapheneOS released a few months ago. First, we’ll start by looking at the documentation, and then I’ll show you how to set it up on a device and what the actual wipe process looks like once you enter the duress PIN/password. ...

August 19, 2024 · 6 min · 1180 words · Josh

How to install GrapheneOS on Google Pixel Tablet GPT + Setup for new users

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/install/web - GrapheneOS Web installer https://grapheneos.org/donate - GrapheneOS donation page https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play - Sandboxed Google Play details https://sideofburritos.com/docs/setup-guides/mobile-privacy/ - Mobile Privacy & Security Guide https://youtu.be/SZ0PKtiXTSs - How to install Sandboxed Google Play in a separate User Profile Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. In today’s video, I’m going to cover step by step how to install Graphene OS on the newly released Google Pixel tablet. I’m going to be using the web installer, which makes it nearly impossible to break your device. There are some hiccups you might run into during the installation, and I’ll cover those at the relevant points in the video. ...

July 24, 2023 · 16 min · 3319 words · Josh

Pixel Tablet Unboxing and Initial Impressions | GrapheneOS

🎥 Video Link Links referenced in/for video https://store.google.com/product/pixel_tablet - Google Store - Pixel Tablet https://youtu.be/aTf7AMVOoDY - MKBHD Pixel Tablet Overview https://grapheneos.org/ - GrapheneOS https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1671432517285552128 - GrapheneOS tweet about initial release for tablet https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/Pro-HYBRID-Type-S - HHKB Professional Hybrid Type-S (Mechanical keyboard) Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. I have been waiting a while for this product to be released. This is the Google Pixel tablet. I was initially going to make this an unboxing video, along with a few first impressions. But 12 hours after receiving this tablet in the mail, I saw this tweet from the Graphene OS team that they had an initial build ready. So, I thought I would test it out. This is not going to be an installation guide video; that will be coming out shortly after this one, and I will link it down below once it’s ready. ...

June 26, 2023 · 10 min · 2072 words · Josh

Thieves are stealing iPhone pin codes | GrapheneOS settings and protections

🎥 Video Link Links referenced in/for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQFyVF8oW0 - Wall Stree Journal YouTube video https://www.karltarvas.com/2023/02/25/protecting-your-iphone-against-shoulder-surfing-password-theft.html - How to protect your iPhone from password theft. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201355 - How to Change your Apple ID password https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/if-hackers-crack-a-six-digit-iphone-passcode-they-can-get-all-your-passwords/ - If Hackers Crack a Six-Digit iPhone Passcode, They Can Get All Your Passwords https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot - GrapheneOS Auto reboot https://grapheneos.org/features#pin-scrambling - GrapheneOS PIN scrambling https://grapheneos.org/features#improved-user-profiles - GrapheneOS Improved user profiles https://grapheneos.org/features#more-secure-fingerprint-unlock - GrapheneOS fingerprint unlock Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

March 13, 2023 · 7 min · 1477 words · Josh

Considering GrapheneOS? Quick tour + useful settings

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org - GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/features - GrapheneOS Features https://grapheneos.org/usage - GrapheneOS Usage https://grapheneos.org/faq - GrapheneOS FAQ Auditor App https://attestation.app/ - Auditor App https://attestation.app/tutorial#scheduled-remote-verification - Remote attestation setup GrapheneOS Camera https://grapheneos.org/usage#grapheneos-camera-app GrapheneOS Camera documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera - GrapheneOS Camera GitHub GrapheneOS PDF Viewer https://grapheneos.org/features#grapheneos-pdf-viewer - GrapheneOS PDF Viewer documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer - GrapheneOS PDF Viewer GitHub GrapheneOS Vanadium https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium - GrapheneOS Vanadium documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - GrapheneOS Vanadium GitHub Settings https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot - Auto reboot https://grapheneos.org/features#attack-surface-reduction - Wi-Fi/Bluetooth timeout https://grapheneos.org/features#pin-scrambling - Pin Scrambling Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

February 27, 2023 · 7 min · 1310 words · Josh

GrapheneOS vs Android OS on the Pixel 7 Review

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play - Sandboxed Google Play Documentation https://youtu.be/hx2eiPTe7Zg - Sensor & Network Permissions https://youtu.be/WjrANjvrSzw - Storage Scopes Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ I am upgrading to the Pixel 7 and after nearly two years of using Graphene OS, I have decided to leave the stock Android OS installed on it. Let me be clear, I did not want to do this, but I figured in order to offer a fair comparison between stock Android OS and Graphene OS, I should probably test out the stock OS and see how it is. My first impression with stock Android OS is that it has a very friendly setup. It wants you to log into your accounts to sync your settings and it comes with a ton of popular apps installed, as well as the Google Play Store, installed by default. I am speaking objectively for someone new to the OS, not from a privacy or security perspective. The whole initial experience was very welcoming. To keep things equal in my testing, I am going to be using the Play Store on both OS’s by signing in so I can download apps. I also wanted to try and embrace the stock Android OS as much as possible to see if there were any features I might miss. ...

January 22, 2023 · 6 min · 1201 words · Josh

Most Secure and Private Browser for Mobile | Vanadium

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing - GrapheneOS | Web browsing https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/ - Mullvad Adblocking DNS server https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/ - Microsoft article on CVE data https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - Vanadium GitHub Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. If you’ve been following my channel for any length of time, then you know that I use graphene OS on my mobile device. My browser of choice is the one that’s bundled with it, which has vanadium. In addition to being bundled with the OS, there are a few other reasons I really like it, which I’ll cover in today’s video on graphene OS vanadium is the user facing browser that’s included with the OS and the provider of web view, which is used by other apps to render content. Now you might be asking what is what view. So as an example, let’s take a look at mastodon. Now there’s a post on Mastodon with a link included with it. And I selected, we can see that the page was opened, but I wasn’t actually taken outside of the Mastadon app to my web browser. Instead, the app displayed the link using web view. So even though you might not think you’re using vanadium, if we select the three dots in the upper right-hand corner, we can see at the bottom running in vanadium. So, that’s what web view is, as the name implies, that lets you view the web vanadium is a chromium-based browser, which means it provides the strongest sandbox implementation available for browsers at this time. Among other security features like exploit protection and site isolation. Vanadium actually improves upon these features, so you get even more protection as compared to using the standard Chrome browser. ...

January 2, 2023 · 5 min · 904 words · Josh

A minimalist dumb phone you should actually use

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/ - GrapheneOS https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/ - Unlauncher https://github.com/jkuester/unlauncher - Unlauncher GitHub https://signal.org/ - Signal https://store.google.com/category/phones - Google Pixel https://youtu.be/B0RVWU_nROk - YouTube Video - I used a flip phone for 30 days https://youtu.be/Vl5OrbsXBI8 - YouTube Video - One Month with a Minimalist Dumb Phone | Light Phone II Review https://www.thelightphone.com/ - Light Phone https://palm.com/pages/product - Palm Phone https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure/ - Mudita Pure https://github.com/sduduzog/slim-launcher - Slim launcher (Unlauncher is a fork of this project) Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

December 5, 2022 · 4 min · 739 words · Josh

How to install GrapheneOS on Google Pixel 7 (Pixel 7 Pro) + Setup for new users

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/install/web - GrapheneOS Web installer https://grapheneos.org/donate - GrapheneOS donation page https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play - Sandboxed Google Play details https://sideofburritos.com/docs/setup-guides/mobile-privacy/ - Mobile Privacy & Security Guide https://youtu.be/SZ0PKtiXTSs - How to install Sandboxed Google Play in a separate User Profile https://nitter.net/DanielMicay/status/1552966692749414402#m - Twitter thread explaining OEM unlocking Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. So in today’s video, I’ll be demonstrating how to install graphene iOS on the Google Pixel seven specifically, but if you have a different Google Pixel, this process will be relatively similar, I’m going to be using the web installer. And if you use that, it’s nearly impossible to mess up your phone. So don’t be afraid to attempt this. Now with that being said, there are a few hiccups you may run into during the install process. And I’ll cover those at the relevant points in the video. The computer I’m demonstrating this from is running Mac OS, and I’m using the brave browser. So to get started, we’re going to head on over to Griffin os.org. All websites that I mentioned in the video will be linked down below in the description box. So once you get here, click on Install Griffin OS. As I mentioned, we’re going to be using the web based installer. So once you get to this page, we’re going to scroll down to the prerequisites, give this a read through make sure that you have all of these requirements met. Make sure you’re using one of the supported OSS, like I said, I’ll be installing from macOS. So besides a supported operating system, make sure you are using a supported browser. There is an important note here, if you are using chromium on Ubuntu, it’s broken and will not work. So use a different browser, such as Google Chrome. Another important note here do not use incognito or private browsing mode. And so once you give that a read through, I’m not going to waste your time by reading it to you, and you make sure that all the prerequisites are met, we can then proceed on to the first step, which is enabling OEM unlocking in the screen we’re currently on is the screen that you’ll see if you just bought it brand new and just took it out of the box. So first, I’m going to walk through the initial setup. If you’re already past this part, you can skip it, I’ll leave the timestamps down below in the play bar. So we’re going to go ahead and select to get started. I’m not going to connect to a mobile network, I don’t have a SIM card in my phone. Skip. I’m going to skip connecting to Wi Fi select Setup offline, continue. Date and time, you can leave that set to default. You don’t need to uncheck these but I like to anyways click Accept limited warranty. Next additional legal terms except we are going to be erasing the phone so you don’t really need to set a pin but I think it’s good practice anyways ...

November 28, 2022 · 16 min · 3386 words · Josh