Upgoat - "what's upgoat?"

Well.. I took the plunge a week or two ago and installed GrapheneOS. It was incredibly easy, even with a carrier purchased phone which they warn could be an issue. One of the reasons I stayed away was the fear of bricking my phone, since I use my phone for my business as well as monitoring security systems etc.

Also the irony of buying google hardware to lock out google is a bit hard for me to get past mentally. BUT I bought the fuckin phone, and didn't want to be the faggot who had a Google phone for no reason, so I had to try it.

The good: Battery life was way better after cutting out the dozens or hundreds of unnecessary services.
Bank apps worked, surprisingly. 99% of the apps I wanted to use worked.
The real benefit for me was it JUST FELT BETTER.. after about a dozen years of creeping faggotry in Android, I was always pissed about the endless forced updates, removed features, location services etc.. Over the years I relaxed a little. Location helped me find services and products I needed, quickly, saving me time money and frustration and unhappy customers. The endless interconnectivity helped me remember things. I usually had new phones, so the updates didn't cripple them. But any time I set up a new device I remembered how much it pissed me off to the core.. Being able to finally neuter these pestering fucks was great. which leads me to the bad.

The Bad: Unless you're willing to go absolutely ALL OUT removing google, using all FOSS apps, the google services permissions are annoying. Play Services trying to install apps every day is annoying. If you want to use google services 'safely' you need to set up containers/virtualisation, or different users, which isn't really conducive to speed or convenience which could be a serious issue if you're trying to work and also utilize your phone to make more money, or monitor security systems. One of my security apps refused to play back footage until I reverted about 8 versions previous. When youre looking for FOSS apps it seems like you have to use 2 or 3 to get all the features offered by the big tech faggots app. The straw that broke the camels back came when I needed to transfer files between my phone and computer, and for whatever reason choosing 'file transfer' was impossible. I was able to get it to show up once after restarting the phone and computer, but it reverted as soon as the screen was turned off and became inaccessible again.

Basically.. my phone is a tool. I wouldn't make money if I had to fuck around with my drills for a half hour for them to perform basic functions like drilling or reversing, with no real documentation on the internet describing this issue with my version of tool. As it is the only way to upload files from my phone is using my NAS, or email attachments, or something like that.

TLDR: If you have a pixel, and you have the technical capability to back up your important data, give it a try faggot.
It was much easier than I expected, and you can go all out installing all the google shit you want, if you want. The OS is still more controllable and granular than stock Android, and you can remove google piece by piece if you want. I wish I didn't have to flash back to the stock gay google OS but I just need my shit to work right now for work and don't need another project in my life. Call me a bitch if you want but it is what it is.

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