Mullvad handles payment data in a much, much better way.

isn’t this just asking your age when the OS is installed? in that case can’t they just install any non-hacked distro and lie? there’s no verification, is there?

Pixel 10 isn’t made in China, and almost all apps work on Graphene just fine.

All my banking apps work fine on Graphene. AFAIK there is only a very, very short list of apps which don’t work on Graphene.

I think the bigger issue is that supporting more devices can add a ton of extra work to the dev team, which is small. That could sacrifice the integrity of the whole project.

The envelopes in the closet thing is that he could just buy a ton of them at once so he doesn’t need to walk to get them one hundred times. That would be the most efficient option. But it’s also the most boring.

IDK, I’d think the best path forward would be to just fork Android and move on from there. That’s what Graphene OS already does. Just standardize on Graphene OS for everything and get them more devs / resources.

Personally I’d be very heppy if Graphene OS continues long into the future without those features anyway.

I’m not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won’t change anything. Is anyone going to think “I’m going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend my free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect”?