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Thank you for elaborating! Thats very helpful.
Do you happen to know if the pixel 6 will run iut of updates with GOS like it will with android and other proprietary phones? Because I‘m searching for something I can actually own so that I can use it until it breaks without having a security nightmare in my pocket due to seized updates.
My understanding is that GOS relies on google for security updates (and sometimes the other way around, they've made some flaws known to google). I would trust them to be solid, at least until google drops the P6 security updates, go look up how many years that is. At worst, you can then use LineageOS or something if you need security, hopefully by then you're degoogled. GOS will still work, but to my knowledge, doesn't guarantee updates after google stops updating. It's about as good as you can expect from a ROM, I'm quite happy, personally.
this is kind of disappointing. My whole reason for switching is to keep apple from turning my device off when it becomes 5 yrs old.
Now I learn that its more or less the same with graphene since it relies on google security updates which means in two years the phone will be out of updates.
Maybe I‘m getting something wrong but my priority is not privacy^TM^ but owning my device which means as long as it turns on, I can use it.
Fair enough, but P7 has 5 years of security updates, I think P8 gets 7 yrs, FWIW.
6 has 5 yrs as well. For me its just turbo capitalism with extra steps.
What I want is the phone version of the 15+ yrs old pc I just refurbished and turned into a server.
I‘ll probably really go for something else entirely then. Probably go for my initial instinct and get a phone I can run mobile ubuntu or postmarket on. Need to research more.