Hey dear smart community, I don't use any Google products or services over 3 years now. Always had android and used fdroid. No apps for banking ( cash lover). Osmand for maps. Extremely happy to find this app for socializing with like minded people. Now I feel time has come to upgrade privacy and security and custom ROM phone. I am considering if getting pixel8 and installing GOS. The only issue is,that I have 0 (ZERO) knowledge about how to do it. I have looked many videos and read on websites how to do it,but I am so afraid that I will not be able. I don't know if that is right to ask for assistance from people here,but I don't feel like I am capable of doing so. Plus,I have samsung which I would like to prepare and give my friend to use. Unfortunately, that person in immersed to Google world ( internet banking apps ect). Do you think LineageOS could give more protection and same smooth usage of phone ? I will appreciate any suggestions how to custom ROM phones. Best wishes to all.

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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hi I work at Murena and we sell phones precisely for people who want to use something different than Big Tech yet don't really have a lot of technological expertise eg to flash devices. Check us out at https://murena.com/ ! Our phones come with /e/OS, you can read more about it on https://e.foundation/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Can recommend indeed. I have used both, GrapheneOS and /e/OS and can confirm both are great. If you somehow do not feel or do not want or can not setup yourself, buying from Murena is a great alternative to stay away from BigTech.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    The phones should have a ton more security improvements, though.

    for example, do they support locking the bootloader? do they ship firmware updates?

    are security updates at least supported for 5 years?

    is hardware-accelerated virtualisation supported? are Linux GKI kernels supported?

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