Pixel 7a and Pixel Tablet since yesterday here.

On Pixel 9 stock they mention you can disable AIcore in the settings, so I would assume GrapheneOS is unaffected.

Think long term movement patterns, correlations with others such, anomaly detection.

IMEI/IMSI are collected (and immediately linked, hence deanonymized even if SIM was inserted only once) by cell tower operators. Just not bring your device, period.

It sound impressive, until you read it’s Las Vegas. In places like Germany you have several weeks per year with neither enough sun nor wind. With backup power like gas turbines which run few weeks per year you have to subsidize the operators. And if you want run them on green hydrogen, massively overbuild the renewable capacity so that you can fill up gas storage during summertime.

Gmail is way more reliable than anything I could self-host. It’s a huge pile of unsorted junk that is only usable with search.