I own a Pixel 7 and although not ideal, it’s certainly better than most of the phones out there for me. The only downsides of daily driving a Pixel are battery drain and overheating. Granted, I live in a rather cold climate so I imagine it being not the most useful piece of tech for the folks near the equator…

It’s been confirmed that Pixel 10 will finally get a non-exynos chip, so perhaps it can indeed become the pinnacle of Android smartphones, who knows.

This scenario still requires Google to play their cards right, however, but there’s hope.

You are absolutely correct, you got both of them right!

I was disappointed they didn’t actually restrict the app for router devices.

After 3 years of using MacOS as a main OS, I am more than convinced it was indeed the intention.

Embrace freedom, change the habits, eat the rich!! /s

They actually did for some people a couple of months ago.

You are much better off using a Pixel with GrapheneOS as far as privacy and security are concerned. Believe it or not, Google Pixels are the best smartphones to use de-googled. Truly outstanding.

Look up why Graphene team only supports these phones, it’s on their FAQ page.

Which is why I prefer NixOS (I use NixOS btw)

Definitely try it, using NixOS after the “horrors” of Arch feels much more secure. Your system is basically unbreakable, not unintentionally, at least.

NixOS user spotted!

Say whatever you want, Snowden’s a fucking hero for sharing this.

AFAIK, you can flash a de-googled version of Android TV on some devices, look up LineageOS’ website.

This might be what you are looking for.

It is not uncommon to find “Wine wrappers” to actually work better than on Windows itself.

Definitely try “Read You”! It utilises Material You, has a sick UI and the dev is really nice. I think there are a lot of features, but I’ve just left almost everything on default.

Thank you, these are great tips!

Thanks, that helped!

Thanks! No, that’s exactly what I wanted to do :) I was just wondering if it’s okay to have this many random requests, which seems to be fine.

I’ve set up a cloudflare tunnel, all you need is a domain. It forwards my local Jellyfin instance to the public web, and is easy to get started with. I’m not sure how secure it is though, so I would appreciate any advice from more enlightened pirates.

Some dogs love cats too!