still deciding to fully degoogle with GOS or muddling through with what I have (proprietary, data grabbing and bloated). To understand the question, compare with my main hardware with debian on it: a regular notebook I bought in 2016 and I've used heavily for all kinds of stuff: working, writing papers, downloading and playing media including AV1, editing audio, torrenting... One of the best investments I ever made, considering what I paid and how prices nowadays are. Debian offers regular upgrades and I don't have to check if my hardware is going to support the software on a level comparable with android devices (GOS only runs on pixels, other open-source, privacy focused Android operating systems have similar hardware restrictions). I want this kind of ROI for the device I buy and the software I use, but I don't know if that's possible: GOS drops support for older pixels but I don't know how many years any particular device is supported by GOS: 3 years? not enough. There's no way I'm buying a new pixel every 3 years. I'd even consider 6 years restrictive.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34022186 > I own 2 bloated proprietary devices and don't use them for anything important, like banking or dealing with authorities. I also don't trust the manufactures not selling my data. > > Id like to have a working device with no bloatware and completely degoogled. Ironically I'd have to buy something made by google to run GrapheneOS on it. Intended use would be to use as a camera, to run CoMaps on it, pkpass files with foss-wallet, reading epubs, making phone calls and running one aurora app. > > I don't need the device to play games, watch movies, show off or to play loud music, but I'd like a jack port for my headphones (I assume google headphones would cease to work if I degoogle the device, nor would I want to spend more than necessary enriching that data grabber even more. > > Is there a pixel device with a jack port? > > Are batteries inside pixel devices glued to the frame or can they be easy to change? > > My main OS is debian. How easy is to transfer data from GrapheneOS to debian and the other way round? > > Overall if you run GrapheneOS on a pixel, how many years running it and what do you think about it?