fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.
Everyone suddenly forgets the used markets when talking about grapheneOS for some reason. Used old pixels are dirt cheap and don’t pass any money to google.
you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.
a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.
Everyone suddenly forgets the used markets when talking about grapheneOS for some reason. Used old pixels are dirt cheap and don’t pass any money to google.
Yeah I just got a refurbished Pixel for super cheap and it works great!
you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.
a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.