thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).
what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies
Google is one of the few vendors (is it the only one left?) that still sell bootloader unlockable phones period. I don’t care about being able to use Google pay or anything. I just want to make my information more difficult and expensive to harvest by being able to use privacy apps to spoof app permissions. That and blocking ads. I would at the very least seriously experiment with no longer having a smartphone if they got rid of all the unlockable bootloaders once and for all and banned or made them incompatible with all the networks.