That’s a hard one. I’ve built some small lakes which is rewarding. I really enjoy the terracing jobs I do now. Years ago I wanted a place of my own with my own pond. My wife and I bought 80 acres, I made an existing pond way bigger, and we hired a house built in 2008. We divorced in 2018 and I sold the place to pay her and put my 2 kids through college. The place is beautiful. 1441 Trefoil Rd Burlington, Ks I built a 300 ft zipline, this video is my daughter and now son-inlaw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkU9mX502s

I am a really good earthmover, heavy equipment operator. My machine of choice that I run daily is a motorgrader.
Other equipment I am very skilled with; bulldozers, scrapers, and loaders. Fair on excavators. Skid steers and loader backhoes I am average.

As a kid there were some dogs that nipped me. Mostly when no one was around. It sucks and I think you should get rid of it. There is something about you loving an animal that is hurting me.

Debian user that reccomends it. I don’t game or need latest gizmos. I want and have a computer that is very reliable and maintenance free.

Not using any play services or g-mail. I use busybusy for work, it says I need the play service but it works without it. My credit Union app works fine. I never got into using my phone to pay, so haven’t tried that.

I had Calyxos and switched away from it also.
Really like the Grapheneos. Google pixels seem to be good hardware. I’m going to buy an extra 7,8,or 9 pixel. Not sure if newer pixels will stay as useable.

I’ve found some cheaper pixels on e-bay, bought mine there.

You could be right. I looked at several of them on eBay and could only find phones with the e-sim, couldn’t find any with sim card tray.

Some apps require google play, like android auto and maps.
I’m using grapheneos with open street maps, so I don’t think there would be any problem with that. There is a work around to load some apps that require google play with out a google account. I’m guessing that is what would be affected.

Grapheneos has a wonderful how to install procedure. I did it with a Linux Debian machine. It took several tries to get the bootloader right, part of that was I didn’t know what I was looking for. Once your phone has the red triangle in the bootloader of the phone, the installer should recognize it, and the installer was awesome from there.

10 does not have a sim card tray, the 9’s do. First post with grapheneos on a new to me 9 I was able to get!