I hate SMS as a whole. It needs to be replaced with something modern.

Ohh that is valid. I do miss that feature. Hopefully someday it is brought to AOSP

Only ever needed root when I used gingerbread devices

I’d recommend getting that pixel. They have 5 years of support with security patches. Do know that the 5 years is with newer devices from 6/6a & up

I recommend grapheneos.org they offer regular and timely updates and offer a lot of very good security features such as contact/storage permission scopes (choose what contacts/files an app can access instead if being forced to allow all access or no access. I recommend at least giving it a look. I think you’ll love it if you want privacy and security. Have a look at the website, they offer way more than I have typed here. If you have questions I can answer them

I think you should take the plunge, grapheneOS is very easy to install with the web installer https://grapheneos.org/install/web and an overall easy to use and setup os :)

If you are willing to buy a pixel from a store that resells them you’d evade paying google. You can get GrapheneOS which IS a very secure OS … They have a feature called Sandboxes Google Play which is compatible with overwhelming majority of apps compared to MicroG. I think you’d really like what grapheneOS has to offer

Please know that Sandboxed Google Play does not use any additional privileges and makes googles apps run in sandbox like any random app you install would.

Heya same hereeee ❤

Majority of my apps are from github or f-droid repos

Tankiebot I think it was on communities from lenmygrad