@Newhere Right now my little daughter is sitting next to me playing Toca Boca World on a phone running a modified Graphite OS. I am familiar with it. Honestly, it's a bit of a pain, and I'm normally happy enough with my ultra-budget ChiPhones. Which cost 1/4 as much and frankly do more.

Personally I'm with Scott McNeally:

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"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

GOS devs don’t let anyone incorporate their code.

False

They also refuse to provide basic functionality like inverted navbar buttons.

This is supported in AOSP now.

Because they’re diva devs.

This doesn't seem like a mature thing to say just because you want to flip buttons.

Because of weak males like you and the one you follow we are where we are. You are supporters for all this,just by letting it be while YOU SEE IT!
Disgusting MALEkind. And you are teaching your kids that. Growing obedient sheeps and teaching that they have no power. This is patriarchal system, where males are thinking about themselves, and in the end its them who paying tge price and half of it puts on weaker side- children and mothers. In matriarchal society you wouldn't have procreated

It does suck for you guys that there are few options, but I like a huge phone personally. I remember back when I got a Galaxy Note 3 it was a revelation, but now it has become the default.

That's interesting, the specs for that phone say it has USB 2.0. I wonder how it works and if any USB dock would work or if this is some kind of bespoke solution.

I have one, but I've only tried with the official dock. I'll try to remember to test it out later this week to see if it works with a rando-dock.

I appreciate that! My guess it that it will not work, but I'd love to be wrong.

I feel like I'm getting gaslit with the "this is a compact phone guys" knowing full well that is a normal sized current gen (or last gen) phone that most phone manufacturers are selling.

I just tested it out, and I could't get it to work. I didn't spend much time trouble-shooting it, so there may be a simple fix, but that is kinda disappointing.

This is supported in AOSP now.

No it isn't. GrapheneOS is directly based on AOSP, so it includes everything AOSP does. GOS devs have made it clear they want you to use gestures, and they only include the navbar at all because it's still in AOSP.

Inverted navbar is in wide a range of other AOSP custom ROMs, because those developers chose to incorporate it. But it isn't in AOSP by default.

This doesn’t seem like a mature thing to say just because you want to flip buttons and are annoyed that the privacy and security-focused project didn’t add a feature to flip buttons.

It's an accurate take on their general attitude to polite requests on their github. And the reason the requests are so excessively polite is because people are treading on eggshells due to their diva reputation - albeit, this reputation is somewhat drowned out by their fandom.

It's also not mature to downvote people just because you disagree with them.

And furthermore, the reason I use the navbar is because I want a force close long-press gesture on the back button, so I can more easily close apps and stop their background processes. To me, that's a fairly important feature for privacy and security. That's also likely a big reason Google pushed away from that, and to see GOS devs align themselves with Google in such a manner raises my eyebrow against them, at the very least.