Its not hard

I've been saving for a couple of months to buy it

That's fair. The fork I use is device specific to a list of like 7 or 8 devices now

So there's that too

And you can almost always fix it

Oh, I have nougat

I will say though that it's not hard to do

@Beemann what fork is this?

Copperhead

how google free is it?

And how do oyu load apps?

No play store or framework, no bad camera app, different SMS app, chromium instead of chrome

F-droid or apps that skim the play store, or just straight APKs

hold on, are you saying the andorid camera pps are bad?

The android camera has a bunch of security flaws, or at least did when I made the switch

And then the additional apps you get on the store are usually cancerous

Did not know.

My only regret is not looking into the TorPhone project, which is basically Copperhead+Superuser and a few Tor apps

Are there compatibility issues? It seems like phones with quirks might have driver problems

You get updates specific to copperhead. Your phone doesn't have google play framework so Snapchat and such won't work

Any app that requires a Google process to run won't work because you won't have the process

But everything else is fine

How would you know if you use a google process in an app?

Honestly F-Droid is good to check out regardless

It tells you when you install it

There's probably a list somewhere too

Honestly, I know android is spying on me, but what's the worst that can happen really

It's just to target ads at me. It's not like they're looking through my camera

I mean they can

If you wanna go dark 100% you need to not have a smartphone though

It's just about the threshold really

But I'm not a criminal or anything, there's nothing to hide really

Like US Gov is gonna be able to spy on your shit if they really want to. That's inevitable. I'd just like for them and other similar agencies to be the only ones

And when I'm doing....you know.....I keep my phone away

i'd prefer if they'd do it a little less

I would also prefer that

I'd prefer it sure

But if you wish in one hand and shit in the other....

But ehhh

I don't like what Facebook did

Honestly. I'm not really sure you can stop it.