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Unfortunately your options are limited these days on devices with unlockable bootloaders, and iirc pixel is the only one you can lock again which is why graphene only supports them. My 8 Pro is solid, and if you're worried about supporting Google, hardware sales are a drop in their bucket - they only sell phones to get you locked into their ecosystem.

To be clear, I'm not knocking other Roms. I just don't have any experience with them. I know Lineage is pretty popular right now as well.

Been on Graphene for a bit less than a year, its been great. You're correct about google apps being regular apps with no special perms, but also there are sandboxed user profiles so if you're particularly concerned you can keep all your dependent apps over there with double sand boxed google 😛

Ive only had one or two issues with app compatibility but they have a setting to apply a less secure ruleset thats worked for me both times.

Nobody knows my dick like I do!

Democrats have always been fascist. Just look at their rhetoric about how "only they can save the country" (even though they've never done shit about shit even when they had a trifecta)

Almost as if they've spent decades not giving a single shit about the consolidation of power and march toward fascism and instead have dedicated all their energy snuffing out anything left of "mid right" on a neutral scale.

Fair. I always assumed I could just point to it while I'm out, but i also haven't put a lot of thought into it yet lol

Welcome! My experience has been seamless, I think most of the idiosyncrasies have been covered in other comments already but Ive had zero issues with base functionality "out the box"

Does it have any benefits over just running pihole, other than reliability?

I can add that ive also had 100% success with that setting, but I've only needed it 2 or 3 times.

No issues here.

gestures broadly at recent SCOTUS decision stripping menial day to day bullshit from experts at their respective agencies to Trump shill judges