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Thanks for reminding me!

I actually wasn't testing anything, I just needing to make a post using my Lemmy.world account, so I could appoint it as moderator (my main account is on lemmy.dbzer0.com). This community actually wasn't created by me. I had previously created a Bazzite community on dbzer0, but then Draconic_NEO created this community on LW and made me mod. I couldn't handle reports though, since they don't federate properly. I have hopefully sorted this out now, by creating an LW account for moderation only, which I now finally have appointed as moderator.

There are several supported apps, such as Curve Pay, PayPal, and banking apps that have their own tap-to-pay implementation.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115295538501760765

You can also use the contactless payments supported tag when searching the GrapheneOS banking app compatibility list on GitHub. https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22contactless+payments+supported%22

Read You is amazing

I would avoid F-Droid though and directly download it from GitHub using Obtainium instead

You can use the contactless payments supported tag when searching the GrapheneOS banking app compatibility list on GitHub. https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22contactless+payments+supported%22

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_5_emulators#Emulators_and_Compatibility_layers

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Xbox_Series_X_and_Series_S

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Xbox_One_emulators

This is incorrect. GrapheneOS supports NFC, and works just fine with NFC-based payment systems. Google Pay is an exception, because Google specifically chose to disable it on any device that isn't whitelisted by them. Other apps, such as Curve Pay, PayPal or banking apps with a built-in NFC payment feature work without issues.

Do they have dedicated servers? I couldn't find anything on their website

I know, I'm a little late

I assume you're in the US? RapidSeedbox offers dedicated servers both in the US and Canada

Unfortunately they are limited in traffic to 10TB per month, unlike their seedboxes

They're on Bluesky and Mastodon too. They even host their own instance at https://grapheneos.social/

Just disconnect it from the internet?

What an incredibly efficient use of taxpayer-funded police forces! Should report it to DOGE, they definitely need to cut funding for that

you would be able to downgrade to the Debian supported version

That's pretty specific to fixed release distros, and it's not gonna work on e.g. Arch Linux.

I’m not going to respond to all the rest of your post, because I don’t think it will help with anything. It seems that we have very different ideas about device ownership.

You don't have to respond to it, I'd be happy enough if you would just acknowledge it. I too like the fact that one can tinker with Linux systems. I've always told people who want to study OS architecture to daily drive either Linux or one of the BSDs. They're really fantastic operating systems for learning how computers and operating systems work. I too have built libraries and system utilities from scratch. I still wouldn't recommend it on production systems. I built Linux from Scratch many times, and I think it's pretty fun and informative (if you pay attention, instead of just copy-pasting the commands from the instructions).
Yet the fact remains that desktop operating systems are inherently less secure than mobile systems, which were designed with a strong focus on security from the ground up. SELinux is a pretty good example. How many desktop Linux distributions do you know, that deploy SELinux (or a comparable LSM) in enforcing mode, and with meaningful policies? Yeah, some of the mainstream distros, such as Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE do it (sometimes with pretty weak policies), but looking at the vast majority of distros? I'd say almost none. Android on the other hand has used SELinux by default for a long time, with actual meaningful, secure policies. Btw if you're looking for a more secure Linux OS, check out secureblue. It's based on Fedora Atomic, and applies lots of hardening on top. Not affiliated or anything, I just think it's a nice and secure distro.

All in all, I think Production devices should be secure. You can always have a second device or that you can use to study the inner workings of an OS, or make changes to it (or in this case run GrapheneOS in the Android emulator).