For years, I annually bought a new top-of-the-line Pixel phone, with few regrets. But I stopped after the Pixel 8, because Google started force-feeding its "AI" slop to customers as THE key feature.

The latest models look intriguing, but are even more crappified with "AI". So, no sale, again.

David P

@pewnack@aus.social

I use GrapheneOS. But yeah the contactless phone payments cannot work. Otherwise the installation was straightforward (there's a web/easier version) and it's a "hardened" version of the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). You can still use Google Play but it doesn't have the same permissions (by design) as on Google stock.

I should add, if you want to go back, last time I checked Google provide stock Pixel devices Android OSs to reinstall.

grapheneos.org/

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