Yes, buying an used Pixel 8 or a 8a is what I would suggest. Its sustainable and doesn’t fund Google.

But their phone has some unique, inreresting features, like that Killswitches, 512 GB, expandable up to 2 TB with micro SDXC card, 12 GB LPDDR RAM, Electro-scrap positive thanks to the cooperation with our partner Closing the Loop, Designed in Germany/Falkenberg and fairly manufactured in our own factory in China , modular, easy replacement of Battery that has a standard format also used in other products from them,

A alternative to fairphone would be https://www.shift.eco/en/ They want to put killswitches into their new Phone which you can preorder for 535€ https://shop.shiftphones.com/shiftphone-8.html

It won’t be as secure as a Pixel with GrapheneOS. Grapheneos won’t support that Phone officially.

Im living in Germany. We say “Wiener Würstchen” to some sausages. Wien = Vienna In Vienna/Austria they say “Frankfurter” to the same sausages. Frankfurt is a City in Germany.

Why did you buy so much plastic and can packaging?

WhatsApp gives you the option to back up all messages to Google or Apple Cloud unencrypted.

You remember incorrect. All Clients are open source:

Telegram apps are open source and support reproducible builds. Anyone can independently verify that Telegram apps you download from App Store or Google Play were built using the exact same code that we publish

In Fdroid there are also forks. But yes, their servers are closed source and centralized.

Still its not recommended. It requires Phone number and as you said its E2ee is not on by default and is not soooo good.

How to make a discord account? I get so many captchas and would have to enter a phone number but all the free ones online don’t work.

Are you happy with DKB and Wise in all other ways?

Often such movies and military movies must be approved by the government and get funded by them so the military gets to co-write the propaganda

Which Bank? The one I use sucks ( financially and IT-sec wise)

I have seen image recognition or text RPGs with type script types, but const ok:true = true as Grid< 4, 9, 2 Wtf

Are you in the EU?

It’s possible to skip on gmail if you create the account with a pixel without a simcard.

Utilities:

Transportr: Bus and Train Navigation
Change Detector: Notification and diff if a website changes
FlashDim: dim your Flashlight
Linphone: SIP Phone
Librera FD: Full Featured PDF reader and editor
phyBox: Use your Smartphone Sensors
Pedometer: counts your steps
Puls Rate Monitor
UnTrackMe
STools+
Termux

Why does it mean less vulnerabilities overall?

More Server side logic means more vulnerabilities on your end.

Why? I like that the Webplatform gives more Freedom to the Users.