Yeah I feel you there, I thought about trying /e/ OS on murena but I really can't leave GrapheneOS, microG doesn't feel as secure as they claim it to be
Southrydge
Have you looked into the teracuve and fairphone smartphones? They actually allow that and are designed for you to easily replace pretty much any part of the phone
I actually just tried creating one but my phone's being weird (using GrapheneOS on Android" but with my schedule it may be hard to moderate it solo. If you or anyone else who's interested is down to maybe start a community ourselves I am super down!
I use both startpage and duckduckgo, I use different browsers for different uses. For example: duckduckgo browser for work/professional use, mull for social media, tor for general browsing, I also recently started using MySudo for the same purposes with it's built in browsers
I've reread so many pages and chapters because of this, sometimes even restarted books entirely
I'm happy with this decision, thanks for the update. Now if I can just learn how to block NSFW from my PixelFed account, not just blur but remove them entirely from my feeds