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@gordoooo_z Yeah. I got myself a Chinese phone with OS by Google, all while living in Russia, and I'm very paranoid, so the first thing I did was replace the ROM with a more trustworthy one 😅
I didn't even use this phone until I was able to unlock the bootloader and I had to wait for a week to do this (Xiaomi moment😩)
I mostly use apps from F-Droid and Aurora for the few apps I might want from Play store. And Ntfy for notifications.
@gordoooo_z I do have a fake "Play Services" to use patched GCam, but it doesn't drain battery and doesn't access network. Almost every app I use supports Unified Push (Tusky for Fedi and Schildi, patched Element, for Matrix), the only app I don't get notifications from, I think, is ProtonMail, but I do check my mail now and then anyway so it's not a problem.
For others that might be a problem, but I did keep using my Lumia till its last breath so everyone knows that I just have no apps 😂