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by uguuo_o 1087 days ago
It sounds like what you want is graphene os.

https://grapheneos.org/

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How the hell is there no screenshots on the landing page of a smartphone OS
Projects like this tend to be built by people with no interest in marketing, and for a non-profit I think it's fine to keep that particular sort of poisonous corrosion at arm's length.
You can add them.

And I don't mean it as a knee-jerk response, this is open-source, anyone with skills is welcome and if you send a pull request here https://github.com/GrapheneOS/grapheneos.org with the screenshots presented in the way you'd expect them, it might get merged.

I can’t because:

- I don’t have a phone that can run it, I’m just curious but without seeing what it looks like it’s hard to become interested

- even if I could install it, there’s basically no chance I would install it because I have no idea what it looks like, because there are no screenshots on the front page

Gotta upvote GrapheneOS. It's great!!
Yup, will keep that in mind for my next phone, thx!
tell that to your banking app provider
Or, if you want to completely abandon the Google ecosystem, GNU/Linux phones are an option, Librem 5 and Pinephone.
Yes. The librem 5 is a somewhat solid alternative. The pinephone seems to remain a developer platform as it lacks simple features expected out of a phone.