put grapheneOS on it …

no you won’t … its so easy to install.

so much yes. I just got mine a few days ago and I love it so much.

GrapheneOS has sandboxed play services that you can easily install to make sure apps work. my banking app only works with play store services so I installed them and set them to zero permissions. You can also make a second profile with nothing installed and switch when you need those apps. MicroG has never worked for me on any phone.

I just got a Pixel 9a and put GrapheneOS on it straight away . my battery with my current usage says 4 days hahah. my old phone was 1 day maybe. I loose my phone around the house , my friends know I don’t text back for awhile.

ya that’s true. I use multiple other things as well. Script to remove copilot and i forget how i got rid of Onedrive. Its a constant battle.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

OOShutup10 works good.

I dunno i have put Mint on many computers including an 80 year old woman who just checks her email and news. No one ever has issues and i don’t get calls . I think Linux has a PR issue more than a “barrier” … I would say Mint “just works” great .

I ran this script to remove copilot and it installs a stub update to make it appear its still installed so M$ won’t try again… working so far.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

same , never really used it but deleted it.

not very popular category but it exists… https://lemmy.ca/c/sarnia

Edgar Oz