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i envy you, you jumped in while i'm still on the shore fearing getting wet again. lol
Just pick up an old pixel off swappa for 100, and you can practice all you need.
Graphene has been the easiest part of the journey so far tbh. The hard part was finding alternative apps and deleting accounts :) Heck, buying the phone in cash was harder than Graphene, dear lord do stores feel like they're entitled to ask invasive questions. I had to order it too because they didn't have the larger storage model in stock so I had to give a fake name with a fake email, a hotel address, voip number, wait over a week, and then argue with them about showing ID until they gave up when I came back to pick it up.
how did you prove that the package was yours?
I had the receipt, a separate piece of paper that they printed with my "name and info", the email, and the text. Luckily I'd also forseen this happening and spoke to the manager when buying the phone, so I had him ready to name drop and he'd put in the notes that I'd "lost my ID" and wouldn't have it for pickup so the guy couldn't really argue with me for long. I did get some pushback initially though, I was a little stressed that they were trying to scam me out of my money but I played it cool.