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As an alternative, if you wanted something less secure, and more ethical, consider buying a Fairphone. However GrapheneOS does not support Fairphone at this moment.
https://www.fairphone.com/
/e/os and lineage is support fairphone, you can have both
This would still be less secure.
True, but then on the upside it's not a Google phone. Which could be more secure from nefarious back doors.
Also there is a part of the Pixel phone which you're locked from reformating -- Is it the bios or bootloader?
It's both.
Maybe when they support carriers other than T-Mo and their leased partners in the US. T-Mobile infrastructure is dogshit. I've lost track of the number of broken fibers and extremely poor cable routing I've seen on their deployments. I've gotten caught in rats nests of fibers trying to get past their lease on tower climbs dozens of times.