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

I gotta get into Arch someday. How’s your experience so far? Easy to use? (I’m sure it is, the wiki is very detailed) Glad to see you like GOS

Thank you for your time

Oh gosh 😮

My post is cross posted from there, actually. Odd they are ignoring or not seeing my post. :/

Thank you. The communities I moderate are on Lemmy.ml

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 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.

A lot more use discord I noticed which isn’t much more secure IMO only slightly better, but still not E2EE

Heya same hereeee ❤

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

Omg so true!