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I'm a bit confused.

The idea is to contain all non-FOSS apps in a workspace. I assume that I'll have trouble without microg for some apps in said workspace, which is why I'm looking for a way to put microG in that workspace.

The rest of the apps will all be FOSS. Thus, I do not see a good reason to bundle MicroG in the base image. I'd like to keep all non-FOSS+Google stuff in one workspace and not have them touch the rest of my apps.

I'm assuming workspaces are akin to a "namespace" in general Linux terminology.

The problem you are going to run into though is that google has baked itself into android that you need something to trick android into thinking its operable.

In stock android, you COULD have a workspace that only uses microg, but considering you otherwise MUST have play services... Why?

What do you mean? I genuinely do not understand, I thought DeGoogled AOSP would work just fine.

Unfortunately, if I'm to use it as my daily driver I will need to use some non-FOSS apps. Mainly the 2FA apps like the ones from MS, Okta, Cisco etc. And Google maps because OSM didn't work for me. And some chat apps because family. Rather than having MicroG in the base system for just this handful of Big-Tech produced apps, I wanted to contain all of them in a workspace. I don't actually care about running eOS specifically, it's just that running GrapheneOS means buying an expensive Pixel device. I want a privacy-foscussed ROM on which I can do this

Cons: no chance of an unlocked bootloader in the US

Not bad. I'll take that if it loads without javascript. I'd like my instance to have a web UI that I can use without JS

I see. Is there a way I can use regular expressions to search? I.e. "*SUP236*"?

Am I a loser if I stick to POSIX?

I don't need any of that. All I need isa privacy-focussed ROM which allows me the ability to install MicroG in a different workspace without bundling it in the base image. I think I'm being misunderstood

TBH if you're OK with 12TB then shucking drives can be a good deal for TB/pound. 12TB usually guarantees the IronWolf/Exos/Red Pro drives

In theory that shouldn't be possible unless the app runs as root. Although I'm sure somebody out there has a zero day for it. Yeah I don't know, I don't give any application permission to use location services, and the ones like maps I set it to "Ask me every time". I hope that's good enough for now

They're both rock bottom, and that's the best I can give. However, I will accept a concession in that my argument is more geared towards trying to escape Big Tech surveillance as a whole, not from any specific company. I admit that was a bold move from Apple but that's our perception of the situation; you don't actually know the discussions that happened and their inner workings because both companies aren't transparent in their dealings

I believe they are equally bad, just that Apple takes the effort to present better optics of their actions whilst Google doesn't care.

I've settled for using Thunderbird for POP + Recoll for search. I can't believe how good Recoll is; in my opinion this is even better than Gmail's search in their Web GUI. I will be using Recoll for a lot more things now, but my immediate need for search has been fixed for now. Though running Thunderbird just for downloading emails does seem a bit overkill. We'll see