they are great to prevent fingerprinting, you can test your browser here, but will require some fiddeling e.g. enable java for content sites like YouTube or they don’t work.
are you sure you aren’t using any addons that influence it? like Jshelter or canvasblocker?
Completly, if you don’t want google you don’t install it, play store/play service/service framework are installable like regular apps. If you later find something that you need it for e.g. Netflix or banking app, you can make a new profile as to not contaminate your google free profile, even though its sandboxed.
tangorpro is also supported by grapheneOS
go early or late in the day when its not hot
Yes element works, I use it still. I had issues with cinny as a discord replacement. This was in the time from march-april.
the encryption broke first just for the desktop app, later also for web browser several times, people couldn’t see what I was writing to them, all while it worked in element. I was able to create nested rooms but nobody could see them for joining… the overall experience was painful and it probably cost me my one chance to convince people to get away from discord after their policy change to record audio from calls
I really disliked my cinny experience, element was much superior
I agree with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2 but would add
init 3 init 5
but I learned for my case its better to reboot if my GPU is acting up the instability would eventually come back