Haha I love that! They really are much more pleasing to the eyes and I love his video on it.
Unreliable
Not if they keep raising the price...
Well, more of one that we had, they took away, and have now rebranded (notification light)
Outside of buying a supported Pixel device and flashing it yourself? Not that I'm aware of.
They'll cover whatever is going to generate them clicks.
Come over to GrapheneOS and not deal with the Google shenanigans!
I've been using MyInsta. Even it is outdated though as the dev is going through his Masters iirc. Otherwise there's a few more out there but they seem less trustworthy imo.
I wouldn't really recommend fdroid tbh. Obtanium + AppVerifier would be a better combo.
Just a few links: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1883895255142932816#m
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7
https://github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc
https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593
https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/issues/1394
There's an interesting one called "Spotifuck" for Android that's a wrapper around the web player. Somewhat janky at times but it works!
I just picked up the Lego collection on Humble Bundle and have been putting some time into the Star Wars collection. It's been wonderful!
How many kids were on it?