I am probably going to play with flashing the phone myself. I wouldn't like to miss another reason for my wife to be mad at me for wasting my time.
what would you recommend?
second hand pixel 6? 6a?
Discussion
6 or 6 Pro. The 6a lags on Graphene, not enough RAM.
And by all means if you're comfortable flashing it yourself do so! This is more to help people who feel uncomfortable doing it themselves.
It's not for profit too. Revenue will be donated to GrapheneOS team and other privacy and freedom causes like Tor Project and Free Ross.
Poxel arrived
Sick. DM if you want help loading GrapheneOS but if you've fucked with Android ROMs before I'm sure you won't need to 👌
GrapheneOS loaded (it was super easy)
but what do I do now?
Depends. You def wanna get an F-Droid client. I recommend Neo Store (you can find it on GitHub) it's wayyyy better than the official F-Droid app.
Once you have it go into settings > repositories and activate the ones you like. I definitely recommend IzzyOnDroid it's way better than the official F-Droid repo.
The rest comes down to if you want a de-googled phone or not. Remember if you do install Google Play Services it's all sandboxed on GrapheneOS.
You can also install them in a second user which is totally walled off from the main one.