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For written media, mainly books, i myself i am using Librera with SherpaTTS.

Okay_1 Parhaps unrelated, but might be worth looking into this thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18400-telephony-defunct

Lion i apologize for mentioning FLAC is uncompressed, seems i've had this wrong impression indeed. Though it is far less compressed than mp3. And i believe uncompressed FLAC exists? As i think i have these in my music library,
FLAC in itself isn't uncompressed.

I've made my statement that FLAC uses more processing power/battery based on remembering reading on a thread on this forum regarding batterydrain. I've found that post back:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20368-battery-drain-possible-solutions-and-ideas/17

Tidal offers FLAC, if u are listening to your music in FLAC format, a part of the higher energy consumption could be that. If u are streaming FLAC, it will have even have a bigger effect on battery drain as a song is FLAC format is substantially bigger than for example a mp3.

A song in mp3 could be approx 5mb, while that same song in FLAC could easily be 50mb. While streaming there needs to be 'downloaded more', hence the potentially bigger battery drain.
Also FLAC is uncompressed, it requires more 'processing power' to decode compared to mp3.

Nice work! If i could make a suggestion as it seems to be a reoccuring theme aswell; How to obtain apps? Perhaps in order of most recommended from a security perspective with a short motivation of the pro's and cons.

It is rumored the tensor g5 will be ditching samsung for tsmc. This could either have benefits or drawbacks, depending on how u look at it. If the later is the case, this could imply it will be first-gen transition, which could have it's own set of issues. This is all speculation ofcourse.

0xsigsev Hi, unfortunatley certain life events chose to happen shortly after eachother, consequently limiting my free time closely to 0. I didn't get any further than peeking activity once in a while on their github issue tracker, there seems to be a healthy spike in interest and collaboration though. I appreciate it letting me know and please let me know how it goes! I'm particalary interested in if there's a sim required with an active subscription or not. I'm also interested if there's yet some sort of 'notification' method for the tp-link device, other than monitoring the webui. Last time i checked on the original device there would come some sort of red line on display when 'suspicious activity' was detected, but not yet figured out on how to do the same on the tp-link device.

Cheers, have fun and thanks agian!

This might be an interesting read, i found @fid02 bundled some relevant information nicely togheter on this post:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20760-im-confused-about-google-accounts/30

I'll tag @pxlkng aswell, perhaps he/she could explain in more depth, as i have the impression he/she has a thorough understanding of this specific subject.

Stayjuice Just a quick note about mobile routers, it might be an import factor to some to know that porting around a mobile router broadcasts a unique mac address everywhere u go if the hotspot is on. (Unless there are some routers that spoof mac address each new 'hotspot session')

TiggyTheTerrible If there was such an option, it could/would imply GOS 'recommends' it in a way. Since GOS is a security focused project, and either f-droid and aurora have (severe) security issues, this likely wont happen.

A quick forum search should bring up above mentioned security issues with f-droid and aurora.

gk7ncklxlts99w1 But if it's a fact that GrapheneOS is more secure than any desktop OS

I believe on the topic of browsers it actually is.
Vanadium is hard to beat from a security perspective, i believe no browser on desktop could even come close. It has full (hardened?) Chromium sanbox, runs in android sandbox, and has userland selinux enforcement. Though this again is based on my current ( perhaps flawed) understanding.

pxlkng Since op got his answer on his question, on a side note, thanks for some work u did on secureblue, assuming it is you with same name and picture.

Not sure if this could be beneficial in any way for u, but i could recommend the Klarus e5 flashlight as an EDC flahlight. It's relatively small, cheap, and pretty multifunctional given its size.

New2MeOS i'm curious aswell, what is being concealed from whom by using Tor in this specific usecase?

n3t_admin I managed to buy it 10ish months into release for €699 with 2 year warranty, new, it was just displayed in store but had not much total screen-on time. If not for that i would have returned it aswell, prices was indeed €1400 here. I lived 2 years with it charging it every step, at home, in car, and batterybank on the go lol.

valaka I have a similar pattern, with the addition that location services are always off, and almost constantly on airplane mode (at work and home), with moderate use. These should decrease battery drain in theory. Though i have tailscale running 24/7 which in theory should increase battery drain. I charge to 80% aswell and when going to sleep i have +-20% left, on a pixel 9 pro, and i percieve this as good.

Though that 'good' is compared to my previous note 20 ultra.

valaka i could be wrong here, purely mentioning this as i had a samsung note 20 ultra in the past (exynos variant), and battery was utterly trash out of the box. After then researching possible causes, it seemed it was inherent to exynos variant note 20's, compared to qualcom versions. In that specific phone exynos variants efficiency was lacking far behind that of qualcom variants.

Perhaps this fenomen is transferable to this specific example, as i think p7 uses a exynos modem (and exynos based chipset?), while your poco perhaps used a more efficient qualcom chipset & modem?

Your poco also had approx 17% more battery capacity compared to pixel 7, perhaps this combined with a potentional more efficient modem/chipset could explain the difference.

I also think tensor g2 is more performant than the snapdragon in poco 3 nfc. This isn't necessarly true in general as efficiency mostly improves per generation as performance improves, but for example i have a very old laptop with a trash celeron which easily outperforms my newer laptop with much more performant and newer cpu in regards of batterylife.

I think u got the point and there are so many variables to take into account that it's actually practically undoable.

Even between same hardware, it's practically impossible, unless u have an identical setup, both next to eachother constantly having the same wifi/cellular strength and have an identical use.

valaka However, I did some research on this topic and consulted a knowledgeable friend prior to writing this post.
From what I could have grasped, the battery life on my device is really strange.

I've captured that from your first post, it seemed u had a pretty good understanding on what has effects on battery 'drain' and u already had that figured out, hence why i fell back on your first 3 sentences which mentioned refurbished pixel 7 and immediatly putting GOS on it.

While it could be battery life on general on pixel 7 is 'bad' (i have no idea, never had a 7), the question here more was is it really 'more bad' with your current setup than pixel stock on your device. Which from your initial post seemed u don't really have a baseline to compare to. If it would seem it isn't 'more bad' than on stock os, but still percieved 'more bad' than what would be generally expected from a pixel 7, the 'refurbish' part could have something to do with it, perhaps a 'faulty' battery.

To provide some context, i also use molly and a telegram fork without play services on a p9p, and while it certainly and logically has an effect on battery drian, i percieve it not really that bad, though hard to compare between different devices with different hardware.

It could be an idea, if possible, to disable those 2 apps for 24h and monitor the device and see if it actually has that big of an impact on your device. Perhaps it could be this, perhaps u have a 'bad battery', or perhaps your expectations were slightly out of touch.

valaka Don't get me wrong, but to me it sounded like u mainly have the perception batterylife is bad on your pixel 7.

U bought a refurbisched pixel 7, and immediatly flashed GOS on it. Which implies u don't really have a baseline to compare it to. Perhaps it is even better with GOS than stock OS on your pixel?

Excuse me if i come across harsh, but there a 'many' battery posts lately, which are borderdline troll. Atleast u don't try to claim it is certainly related by GOS.

Depending on from what seller u bought the refurbished phone from, it might be that there has been put a cheap battery in aswell.