Thanks for the guidance! Proton relying on Google Play Services for push is already throwing a wrench in my profile plans. It will be fun to tinker with regardless and I’ll figure something out.

Appreciate your reply!

My plan is to do one profile for now.

My concern with separate profiles was media playback stopping or being unavailable in the other profile.

I was under the impression that if an app was downloaded from the Play Store (not just banking apps) then it’s basically reliant on Google services and should live in the same profile. Is that right? Or can Spotify and Whatsapp, for example, live in another profile from where Google services is installed and still get notifications and survive okay?

If that’s the case and Google services only needs to be in a profile with banking apps, then that sure does change my mental model on how to set things up.

I hear you on “black and white” or “all or nothing” thinking.

But I literally don’t even know what’s guiding my decision to pick an app on Play Store vs F-Droid now.

Play Store = More trust but more tracking

Foss = Less trust but less tracking

Self-hosting has been really satisfying, but still, I’m moving my trust model to myself in how I’ve set things up as well as the apps that facilitate it.

It just feels like floundering in this pursuit if the concepts of privacy and security have so many different perspectives and gotchas.

I don’t like this, but how can I explain to a family member that this is more than just hand-wavy bad and instead give a practical reason that would cause them to care?

It really surprised me how many services I was relying on from Google when I really took stock. I’ve been weaning off for a few weeks and I expect the process to take some weeks/months still.

I just bought a Pixel to use GrapheneOS because I share your same opinion.

I tried a super lightweight model on my CPU-only laptop as recommended by whichllm.

The response to a basic question spit out a word every 1-3 seconds and was laughable.

Not that this was a huge surprise, but it wasn’t even in the neighborhood of usable if anyone out there is considering trying it on their underpowered system.

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This is a legit problem we should all be concerned about. Doctors do not sign off on this inaccurate notes and they live in your file unless/until corrected.

Add it to the pile of things that suck.