I have a functional Pixel 3XL that when flashed with one of the few modern Android ROMs available for it feels pretty fine to use for the most part… better than a lot of brand new low end Android devices, if I’m being honest. Too bad it’s not supported any more.

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DistractionRect 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's still supported by lineageos. It's just the installer doesn't do major version bumps, you have to manually reflash to higher versions.

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ThePowerOfFuet 4 days ago | parent [-]

If Graphene can do it, why can't they?

	▲	nar001 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They can, they just don't want to add more engineering hours to that I imagine
	▲	DistractionRect 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Grapheneos is, to my understanding, a dedicated development effort that specifically targets pixels. Lineageos on the otherhand, provides scaffolding that volunteers can use to support phones of their choosing. It's very best effort and ymmv between phones. A universal upgrade option is just asking for trouble as it's not guaranteed all phones will behave the same/well.
	▲	jeroenhd 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		FWIW in my experience upgrading Android versions works, mostly, as long as you remember to uninstall the old Google Play services and then install the new ones. However, without a tested migration path, it may break your phone and make you factory reset + reflash the ROM if it doesn't work out, and there's nobody you can turn to or blame when that goes wrong. There's no official support, but that doesn't mean it'll never work. Testing migration paths is a massive pain, especially when you're upgrading a whole bunch of parts all at once, and volunteers have more fun and frankly more important things to work on.