@arirr
@social.fossware.spaceEven with all the scaling issue that having larger societies come with, I don't see how modern technology would be doable without it. Try running a chip fabrication plant using a highly distributed workforce.
Society. As much as laws and taxes and all the various things suck, it is still better than the alternative.
Yeah IDK if you are even able to get the bootloader onlocked for your version. Regardless, there is still a lot that you can do with stock. You can disable most of the Google stuff through ADB and install F-Droid. Neo store even has backgroud updates for Andrpid 12+ IIRC. Here is a short guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/jqxe1u/tutorial_how_to_degoogle_any_android_phone/
I can't vouch for performance or update breakages though.
It will really depend on use case. The most straight forward one is using LineageOS and F-Droid. With more specifics, I can give you a better fitting setup.
I still lecture people on the correct detergent to use and to do a prewash because on him. 😂