brzrd

Truth is, most of us feel the same way you do. You are not alone. What is being shared by the community is the “best options of what we have” at the moment.

This tyranny is by design. But this also means we can design ourselves out of it. Its just slow process.

We are starting to see new models of communication be develop, and in some cases we are seeing convergence of these efforts into very exciting solutions.

We’ll get there. Its a lot of work and we have to keep doing whatever we can in our capacity to help that process along.

Just know we all feel the same way you do, and this is the best we got for the time being. We have to stick together and keep talking all this.

Power to us!!

Perhaps you have some useful suggestions to share. Always happy to listen and learn.

I jumped through hoops with the Samsung. ADB-ed the hexk out of it and broke functionality in so many ways.

If I can save you the effort - DON’T even bother trying. There is just too much interconnectedness to undo without breakage.

I moved to a hunch of Pixels running Graphene and have lived happily ever after.

With the added Israeli spyware coming to Samsung, I cannot think of any reason to put any effort into it.

Additional info: Skip the Pixel 6 and 7. Its better to spend a little more in the Pixel 8. I got mine used and its brilliant. I also liked how the Pixels 4 and 5 were as well. Very good devices.

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