I hate SMS as a whole. It needs to be replaced with something modern.

Thank you for your time

Oh gosh 😮

My post is cross posted from there, actually. Odd they are ignoring or not seeing my post. :/

Thank you. The communities I moderate are on Lemmy.ml

Ohh that is valid. I do miss that feature. Hopefully someday it is brought to AOSP

Only ever needed root when I used gingerbread devices

I’d recommend getting that pixel. They have 5 years of support with security patches. Do know that the 5 years is with newer devices from 6/6a & up

I recommend grapheneos.org they offer regular and timely updates and offer a lot of very good security features such as contact/storage permission scopes (choose what contacts/files an app can access instead if being forced to allow all access or no access. I recommend at least giving it a look. I think you’ll love it if you want privacy and security. Have a look at the website, they offer way more than I have typed here. If you have questions I can answer them

I think you should take the plunge, grapheneOS is very easy to install with the web installer https://grapheneos.org/install/web and an overall easy to use and setup os :)

Majority of my apps are from github or f-droid repos