That's pretty much what fairphone is doing and if right-to-repair is taken serious by the powers that be, so will all other manufacturers. Source: over 2 years ago

Sadly no, Shiftphone is producing in China. The main reason is that basically all suppliers for parts are situated there and shipping them elsewhere would be more environmentally unfriendly. Like Fairphone and other similar companies they do have measures in place to ensure worker rights and environmentally friendly factories. Source: over 2 years ago

I've used the Open GApps project to install Google Play Services on incompatible devices like Android Fire tablets in the past, though I think to install them I had to use a custom recovery like TWRP. Source: 6 months ago

Do you have any pc set up with adb and fastboot tools? If not, please do so. Otherwise go to xda-developers.com and pick any ROM you may find interesting or just go with this You'll probably also want to install gapps, so download the following from here ARM/11.0/pico. Source: 11 months ago

For older versions of Lineage, there was a download at https://opengapps.org/ to choose f.e the pico package. Also, the OpenGapp package for Lineage 18 did not contain many Google tools. The help pages of lineage/openGapps is pointing to https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps where a download for any unknown version is available. Choosing this package for Lineage 19, I got the whole advertisement for Google back. :-(. Source: about 1 year ago

For GAPPS it did not work with the suggested GAPPS since I got an error, so I used OpenGAPPS based on this form, install GAPPS error. I downloaded and installed gapps from https://opengapps.org/ with the settings ARM64, 11.0, nano. Source: over 1 year ago

LOS 19.1 is based on Android 12 but there's only up to Android 11 on here https://opengapps.org/. So like do I just install the 11 one? Source: over 1 year ago