Best phone OS around imo

I switched from iPhone to GrapheneOS five years ago and I remain extremely satisfied. I highly recommend it. Even if you don't want to give Google money, you can buy used or at least rest assured that you're still sticking it to them by denying them control and surveillance even if you buy new

Made the jump a half years ago. As is as half as hard as it Sounds and pretty Forward.

I can only recommend to do it.

I've been using Graphene for years at this point, and so far it has been amazing.

I have two profiles, main one without Google Play services, and fortunately a lot of apps just work out even without them. Some complain about it, but still work at least as far core functionality I want is considered, and for the few that don't, I have a second profile that runs sandboxed Play Services and just switch when needed.

I'm a little bit worried about Google's push around installing apps from other sources than orignal Play Store, or the new integrity API, but I'm willing to just stop using any app that requires it, and change banks to one that either doesn't require an app for login, or can work without play services. Fortunately, my current one works without, for now (mBank).

Well this is awesome. I opened the link to read the article and my phone dropped a notice that I can finally unlock the bootloader. What timing! 😃

Break free from Google by buying a Google Pixel, because GrapheneOS can only be installed on Pixels...

"break free from Google"

requires investing in Google devices

I swear, the low quality posts with scam-like titles one sees in the Fediverse these days...