Nope! The 9 is the first pixel that uses Ultrasonic. Its a massive upgrade from the optical scanner in the 7. Legitimately never misses

Ultrasonic under screen readers dont need to light up that spot to work

I buy most of my music and use Navidrome to stream it. Tempo is a great android app and the Navidrome web app is solid

Thats just a big ipod nano

Libretube seems to almost never work for me no matter what instance i try.
Also worth adding Smarttube for AndroidTV

CalyxOS. Uses microG but is otherwise google free. Feels fairly vanilla and has a pretty solid backup solution in Seedvault

I think Graphene supports Auto. Its the only thing that makes me want to switch from Calyx

Credit unions are better but that doesnt mean their app will work on a rooted device
Source: My credit Union app doesnt work on my rooted devices 🙃

Probably a smart move after the Yuzu stuff

I wonder if this means the visor is done :(

+1 for MuPDF. It’s so lightweight it almost feels like a native part of the OS

Ive been using ivy on my Chromecast it’s good, but Flauncher looks more like what I want.
Protip for Chromecast users - disable the stock launcher via adb to set a new default

Samsung could easily win me over if their bootloader was unlock able.
Edit: Apparently it’s just US variants that can’t be unlocked

Is there one that doesn’t suck and isn’t auto/carplay?

Lemuroid is my favorite. Available on fdroid and the play store

Waze for me unfortunately owned by Google tho. Doesn’t require play services

I use CIFS Document Provider and the stock files app lets me browse the share without an exact path. Does require IP tho

One major annoyance is contact/calendar syncing. DAVX works great but you do need to set up your own provider. I ended up using my NAS, synology has apps that do that

Pixel 7 with Calyx OS. This is probably my all time favorite setup for a phone. Most of my apps are foss except a few (banking apps, discord, lyft, and Instagram)