• sugar_in_your_tea
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    7 months ago

    Thanks, I might just do that!

    I’ve only had it a day, and I haven’t even swapped my SIM yet (waiting for my case to be delivered), so I’ll give it a couple weeks to really get a feel for things. I’m going on a road trip soon, and may be going out of the country, so if I’m going to run into issues, it’s going to be soon. I’m also going to try using the eSIM to trial Google Fi (international data FTW, free for 7 days), so it should be a rather complete experience.

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      7 months ago

      Just be careful actually using that international data for too long cause I used it when I took a semester abroad and they shut off my data and account access literally on the day of my flight back home and kept billing me for months after when I didn’t have access to my account to cancel billing for my (non-)service. They say the majority of your service should be spent in the US but they don’t actually define anywhere what that means to them. They just tell you one day that you’re shit out of luck and not eligible for service anymore (including domestically).

      None of their support people were able to help by turning my service back on long enough to get back to the states or even just telling me how to get back into good standing. The only thing they were able to tell me is why it was shut off.

      Anyways if you do need international data, airalo was really reasonably priced and easy to set up. Came in clutch. Fuck google up the ass for leaving me stranded like that.

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        7 months ago

        Thanks, I’ll check it out!

        I’m with Tello, which has no international calls or data, and my wife is with Mint, which has a prepaid (really expensive) option for small amounts of credit. We’re planning to go to Canada for a day or two, and I was planning on (ab)using the 7-day trial.

        I plan to do other international trips, and getting Fi for a month or so each time was the plan. But if they suck, maybe I’ll try something else for this trip.

        Airalo looks decent ($6 for 1GB in Canada is reasonable). Thanks for the tip!

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      7 months ago

      Google Fi is the one thing I have no experience with, as I’m not American. But all SIMs should work fine on Graphene, and eSIMs are supported through a compatibility layer, which enables Google’s proprietary eSIM management tool (this is not the same as Sandboxed Google Play services, and you don’t need Google Play for eSIMs). All the eSIMs and physical SIMs I tried work just fine. Google Fi seems to work, according to this thread on the Graphene Forum: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/7950-does-grapheneos-work-with-google-fi/6

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        7 months ago

        Cool.

        Since you’re here, do you know if SIMs “just work” with different profiles? Can I restrict them to a specific profile? I’m guessing SIMs are a completely separate concept from profiles (which AFAIK just manages apps), but this is my first time with GrapheneOS.

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          7 months ago

          As far as I can see, no. But what benefit would that really have? Network settings (including mobile networks) are global. The only thing that’s profile-specific is your VPN setting. You can only disable a profile’s ability to use the phone/SMS feature. Profiles generally manage apps, user data and some settings.

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            7 months ago

            The benefit is that I could block apps installed to one profile from using my data (i.e. wifi only), while allow apps on the other to use it. I could install something like NetGuard, but I also use a VPN, and it’s one or the other with that IIRC (at least on my old phone, I can only use one VPN at a time).

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              7 months ago

              Ok that actually makes sense. I just realized that the fucking iPhone has this feature, but Android doesn’t. GrapheneOS doesn’t implement any custom features that aren’t privacy/security related. And no, unfortunately you don’t get a second VPN slot either.

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                    7 months ago

                    I meant it more tongue-in-cheek :)

                    My threat model isn’t such that I need it, it’s just really annoying. GrapheneOS does allow blocking network per-app, which is a sufficient workaround. It’s a bit tedious, but I can do the following:

                    1. disable network on sensitive apps
                    2. disable NetGuard and enable other VPN
                    3. finish what I was doing
                    4. undo step 2
                    5. undo step 1

                    I really wish there was a way to get VPNs and NetGuard playing nicely together. I want all traffic to be filtered by NetGuard, and then routed over the VPN. This is trivial on Linux, but apparently not so on Android, which is a shame.

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      7 months ago

      I’m also going to try using the eSIM to trial Google Fi

      You degoogled your phone and then want to route all of your mobile data through Google servers?

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        7 months ago

        I want to route the data we use during our 1-2 day trip through Google servers, yes. It’ll be on a fresh number, and then cancelled promptly after our trip, and it’ll be a hotspot just for the trip so my wife can communicate w/ her friends. It’ll also be used for any incidental calls we may need while there. I usually don’t bother and just use wifi calling as needed, but I saw the free 7-day trial and was interested.

        That said, someone else mentioned some inexpensive alternatives ranging from $3-6 (airelo, I also found these), so I’ll probably just go that route instead. Most no-contract services I’ve found require buying international credit, so that would be $20+ just for the trip, and that seems a bit ridiculous. I’m willing to pay about $5 for data for the trip, I’m not willing to pay $20+.