Not really , at one point or another you need to normalize it. Also doxxing me would be difficult.

Molly for signal if that counts

So let me know when you want to organize international brigades. John brown clubs are welcome to connect with me.

Yea a lot have changed in 10 years in the cat and mouse game. GOS is a completely different thing. Want to unlock or unlock bootloader on a Motorola = 2 pages instructions in different xda threads. On a pixel? fastboot oem unlock done. And that’s just because I’m old school , GOS have a webinstaller were I think you don’t even need to touch the terminal.

Battery charging is ofc an issue for main driver , but if you can live with it I’d say it’s ok , no thermal control shouldn’t be an issue at 1 amp . Basically at that you can’t use the phone while charging and expect not to run out of juice.

Volume control yea needs testing I guess. Feels it can be an issue or not

Import? Buy one on ebay?

I know that pmos have a pixel 3a port , have been looking into that a while back but not installed yet. Worth checking out

Understand your worries. I can say that GOS is the gold standard of privacy phones , nothing beats it. Calyx comes in 2nd. A new install of graphene has a browser, pdf viewer sms app and that’s about it. Use as you wish , with secured bootloader and zero google stuff. And I think it’s the easiest install of any , anyone can do it. And 2nd hand phones are available

Agree. Calyx is also an option when GOS support ends , then lineage etc. Wish we had good working Linux phones but I have high hopes my pixel 7 will be my last android

2nd hand pixels beats any midrange phone at the same price. Sent some with GOS on them to a friend in Nicaragua. Quite instantly he broke the screen , bought new screen on ebay that shipped directly to bumfuck nowhere on milestone address. But yea with fairphone I understand the issue

Just switch ROM?

Better option is calyx like the others supported, so will be supported or ported later I assume . GOS for me but 2nd is calyx in my book