Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you’d think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.

Oh, god. I remember how it ran on a stripped down gingerbread ROM lol.

I gave up and bought a new phone after that.

I’d say stock pixel Roms are a better experience than most custom Roms. That being said, if you have privacy concerns, grapheneOS is right there.

Personal choice, IMO. I don’t miss any of the features I gave up except for AI call screening.

It is a closes source program owned by an analytics company. I don’t know if there’s a good way to conclusively tell, but why else would they have bought it?

You might try another bank. Several still provide online banking, so you can just use their website.

Pixel 8 here (broke my 7 a couple of months ago).

Works great. Updates are fast, and I keep a work profile with play services and maps installed. The only think I know for that doesn’t work is google pay, which I’ve never understood the use case for.

This. The only google service which doesn’t work is google pay, and you can literally just put an NFC card in your phone case if it’s that important to you

Even android auto is supported.

I think it depends on your use case and how strapped you are. Unless you’re gaming, you don’t need a super performant phone these days. Anything midrange will perform around the same as a flagship in normal phone tasks. What does matter is the form factor, battery life, and support window.

That being said, I basically only recommend the pixel series these days, because they support grapheneOS and they’re just cheaper than other phones with that long of a support window.

Samsung and Motorola do make some nice hardware though.