I have a google pixel, and I know I could install grapheneOS on it. But I’m very, very hesitant, since I depend so much on my phone.
This isn’t like distro hopping, where I feel more comfortable hot swapping ssds, or making partitions, or using my desktop while I tinker with my laptop. My phone has a SIM and the service I depend on can’t be emulated off this phone.
So what do you recommend I do? Should I move my SIM (my phone service, really) to a new phone while I tinker with this one? Can I just blow up the current OS and wing it? Or maybe theres another option that would allow me to bail back to stock android in case something goes wrong. What do you think?
@Antiochus @Sal Graphene or any clean Custom-ROM is a waste of time if you intend to use Whatsapp or any of META, TikTok and the like. https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/hi-meta-whatsapp-with-privacy-6d646c5aa3bc
The official GrapheneOS Twitter account states the complete opposite on several occasions:
https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1692002070650335259#m
https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1728630943886270827#m
https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1745532453215781151#m