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    (though CalyxOS is paused for an interal audit or something)

    More like “Nick Merrill (the guy who fought NSL letters in court and started the project) and the lead developer departed without a single word and took the project’s signing keys with them”. You draw your own conclusions, but for me (a long-time CalyxOS user) those were huge red flags and caused me to settle on iodéOS for my new home.

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      Oil I hadn’t heard of IodéOS looking into it now as I planned on Lineage for better device support.

      Thank you!!

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          Yeah, I see that. I checked out the list of supported devices, I was hoping for newer, but I figure if it’s near on Lineage, maybe the newer OnePlus devices would work too. I just cant get behind $500+on used Pixels. A 12R or 13R would be preferred <$400

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            I used to like the Pixel a line, which clocks in at around 370 EUR / 435 USD for a new 9a where I live. My next one’s likely going to be a FairPhone though, because fuck Google (and it’s a European manufacturer).

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              I like the fair phone, or nothing phones, but I like the bigger screen and IR blaster that OnePlus offers.

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      I had Calyxos and switched away from it also.
      Really like the Grapheneos. Google pixels seem to be good hardware. I’m going to buy an extra 7,8,or 9 pixel. Not sure if newer pixels will stay as useable.

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        I installed GOS on an old Pixel 4a I had lying around. It seemed OK so far, but I didn’t do a lot of testing. Are you running it with sandboxed play services? How well does that work as compared to MicroG under CalyxOS?

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          Not using any play services or g-mail. I use busybusy for work, it says I need the play service but it works without it. My credit Union app works fine. I never got into using my phone to pay, so haven’t tried that.

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            I don’t need payments to work, I’ve never used Gmail, and most of my apps are FOSS ones off FDroid. But banking apps must work, and so do push notifications. The latter are my biggest issue: afaik, they run through GCM (part of Play Services), and you won’t get any unless an app has implemented an alternative listener (Signal does), which comes with more battery power draw. (How) do push notifications work for you without microG and Play Services?