@nazokiyoubinbou The parts that come across as smug are sentences like "it's a lot more work" and "You have to research things, figure out options, even perhaps go with methods that involve what are essentially imports." Between the lines that means "everybody else is too lazy and not committed enough, but I'm doing it right." Do you think it's very usual to buy something from another country?
It's really cute that you think something will happen 2033. I honestly wish that is true, for all of us, for the many other people who like to use Graphene or Lineage, but it's 2026 now, and there is absolutely no way of knowing. You cannot out-research and out-effort that uncertainty about the future. Shit happens all the time.
A couple of years ago, I don't know exactly, it was before Graphene, but Lineage was already around, I needed a new phone. I wanted to get a second hand one. I read the list of supported devices of Lineage. I made a list of the models that were good candidates. I found one of them, the Lineage support was okay for me (there's always a list of stuff that maybe doesn't work), so I bought it. The whole process took maybe two or three weeks. By the time I had it in my hands and wanted to set it up, it had been removed from the list of supported devices. No images available, and even if I had found an older copy somewhere, that would still mean no updates ever.
So excuse me if I'm slightly doubtful that a hardware exists for which we can say now that in 2033 there will definitely be some custom ROM to support it. (Look at Pixel models now.) But I really hope it's true.
I guess the only way we could improve this is to learn how to make custom ROMs ourselves.
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