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Advice on degoogling
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this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Imma be the problemXY guy - how often do you need to interact with your bank that you need to carry that attack vector always on your person? you managed to live without that thing for a huge percentage of your life, maybe try limiting your exposure. if that works out, your options for a degoogled life rise dramatically.
get a used supported device that ain't a pixel, if you haven't already got one lying around and carry it in parallel - you still got all your shit on your main device and you have the luxury of offloading one by one use case onto the new device without downtime.
maybe you'll make do with just bare lineageOS. maybe you'll need the intermediate step - lineageOS with microG which implements a subset of play services.
hopefully, in the process you'll throw out a buncha consumerism shit you don't actually need. good luck.
Throwing your old non-AI tech away isn't going to save the planet. It's going to remove options of what you can do to get around surveillance in the future. And contribute to landfills.
Throwing your shit out that you brought is the core tennet of consumerism.
No, keep the shit you bought and keep it well.