They’re not perfect, but they’re pretty much carrying the world on green technology. Also they give non-predatory loans to African countries so they can escape the IMF & Co.

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Pixels are in the ‘just below flagship’ price range, so I would compare them with cheaper flagships or high-end midrangers rather than budget phones.

They also don’t have the advantages of budget phones such as headphone ports, expandable storage and FM radio.

The consensus so far seems to be that they don’t collect as much data as people think, partly because they can’t process all of it, and partly because educated guesses are good enough to target ads often enough.

You look for network traffic. You might not be able to see inside the packets, but you can know when they’re sending packets, and how many. As far as I know, voice assistant systems that claim to use a secondary local circuit to detect calls are telling the truth.

Nobody talks about what came next.

Most of the monarchies and aristocrats in Europe fell / lost all real power / reformed themselves to avoid losing their heads?

Are those people so detached that they think industry is people writing emails to each other?

an Android or LineageOS device

You need to decide whether you’re okay with Android, or want to be able to also run LineageOS. The latter will reduce your options to devices that can be rooted and have their bootloader unlocked - so Xiaomi, Motorola, Nothing, Google and Fairphone - and that too only some models (the ones for which a LineageOS ROM has been developed).

at least 6GB of RAM

Any midrange and even many budget phones have 6GB RAM nowadays.

capable of running without Google Apps

Do you just want to not use Google Apps, or do you want to completely remove them from your phone? Again, the latter will need rooting and bootloader unlocking.

compact enough for portability open to a tablet

Tablets are not very portable.

performance is key

Probably avoid Google Pixels then. They use Tensor chips, which have poor performance.

USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode

Which devices have this, and which don’t, is very arbitrary. You’ll have to check for each model.