I am on Wayland and have the issue.

I’m having similar. When machine dims the display, it’s changing my monitors brightness and doesn’t bounce back.

Absolutely love Thunder. It is my preferred way to browse. Keep up the fantastic work. And as always, thank you!

I have tried many of launchers over the years, and I can only find myself using one: Nova.

However, I don’t exactly love that Nova was bought out by Branch, an analytics company. So I still use Nova, but when using LineageOS or stock Android I use AFWall+ to block internet access to Nova.

If privacy isn’t a concern of yours, then Nova without a way to deny internet connection to it would do.

Nova has the google feed feature you are looking for. It works quite well.

Nova has 1 feature that I cannot find in another launcher (at least not an open source one…) that for me is the ability to swipe up and down on an app icon and have it launch another app or shortcut. It’s powerful and allows me to keep my homescreen empty, and I have 12 app icons on my taskbar. That being said with swiping, I can launch 36 apps from my taskbar alone. Allows me to keep it clean. And that mixed with separate tabs for app categories created by me.

The closest to Nova I have found, and is an excellent launcher is NeoLauncher

This launcher has quite the selection of features and I do implore you to check this launcher out.

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard is my vote. Been using it for months now.

There didn’t appear to be a DivestOS image for my Pixel 8 Pro, so I went back to LineageOS since I couldnt have AdAway and AfWall+ among other things on GrapheneOS.

I ended up trying out LSPosed mod and Pixel Expert and Iconify, and decided not to use it. This k you for taking the time to respond and share!

That sounds quite frustrating, wish I had any advice to help but sadly I don’t.

I ended up trying GrapheneOS on my P8P, but it didn’t quite fit my use case.

I ended up back on LineageOS again, so I could have AdAway, AFWall+, and as of today I installed a custom kernel (Sultan Kernel) and I am pretty happy with the outcome.

I still love GrapheneOS but I was having issues with notifications among other things.

Never been an iOS user outside the days of the iPod touch, specifically gen 2 and 4. Though, I jailbroke them as soon as it was possible. Are you playing local music? I may have some suggestions for it.

Graphene is a nice degoogled option, when there aren’t issues. Unfortunately with my Pixel 8 Pro, I have had a lot of issues that just don’t seem solvable without dev changes.

Can’t say I have ever gone down the rabbit hole of using /e/OS Though I have heard of it. What bugs are you experiencing?

I would have given DivestOS a shot if I was on a Pixel 7 Pro, because that’s what I wanted instead of the 8 Pro, but necessity dictated I bought one because I can’t be without one for very long.

I will keep an eye on Diveset, but it is looking like I may go back to what I had setup on my 7: LineageOS, rooted, with my necessary tweaks. At least I like tweaking things, so there is that.

On my 7 Pro, Android Auto worked great. Since flashing GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 I have had no such luck.

I know it’s overkill, I was running AdAway as root, with a Wireguard connection to my home VPN, which was running behind a PiHole instance, along with uBlock Origin, and a few other measures of blocking like AFWall+. But I may just go the route of using PiHole as my adblocking solution (along with my own unbound DNS server.)

Though, you have piqued my interest with Blocky, as I have had some issues with PiHole that I am not wanting to troubleshoot at the moment.

I may have to fine tune my uBlock in order to block advertisements from video (and luckily with Mull I have been able to use SponsorBlock successfully.)

The video advertisements that haven’t been blocked are on other video hosts that I have found for various purposes, but maybe with fine tuning my uBlock, and having blocky, or PiHole, or AdGuard home (although if I am being honest, I am avoiding anything that isn’t open source as much as possible.)

I know my preferences and use cases are niche, but I really do appreciate the conversation around this! Thank you so much!

Mull is my current browser of choice, so I like that idea. I will have to give DivestOS a shot. Thank you! It doesn’t look like the Pixel 8 Pro is supported by DivestOS, at least not from a quick glance. I will have to look into potentially what it would take to build it for it though.

I may have to give that a shot. Thank you!

I love GrapheneOS, but it falls short on any adblocking outside the scope of my browser. I have also had issues using PrivateDNS on GrapheneOS. It seems to kill my network connection.

I can’t seem to get away from Nova Launcher because of some features that no open source launchers seem to have, and with Nova being bought out by Branch a number of years ago, it made me uncomfortable giving telemetry and other data to them since they are an analytics company, so introduce AFWall+, I can restrict access to network for Nova. I am doing the same thing with GrapheneOS, so a firewall for that exact issue isn’t exactly a worry or a problem for me.

I still use Ublock with my browsers of choice on any android based OS, but the problem that I am having is that for videos, Ublock doesn’t seem to block any of the video ads for me.

The big reasson for AdAway for me was because it was root based and didn’t hijack my DNS, which also allowed me to VPN into my home network so that I could work on some projects on machines there because I don’t have any ports exposed to access such services outside of the ports needed for me to connect to my VPN.

Thank you for the suggestion! However, I have used GrapheneOS. And I am a fan, and it could absolutely fulfil most of my needs. However there are a few things that it can’t accomplish for me unfortunately.

There are Magisk Modules I use that I couldn’t get loaded on GrapheneOS without massive hassle. I also don’t want to live without AdAway, App Manager,Pixel IMS, AFWall+, amongst other apps.

I ran GrapheneOS before they supported Android Auto, and for a while after they had put that in. I just don’t think it would exactly fit my current wants and needs.

As far as AdAway I totally understand that I could use a local VPN service to accomplish similar and block ads that way, however that would take away from my ability to connect to my home network and block ads.

I know my use case is rather fringe.

AdAway, AFWall+, A-GPS SUPL Replacer, Pixel Tensor Audio Decompressor, Wireguard Command line tools, Termux and chroot capabikities, App Manager, Pixel IMS, SDMaid automation, and a number of other controls on how my phone works.

Its not for everyone.