I’m pretty fit, but winter did the same to me. The solution was a light clock that simulated the sunrise

There are deadlift deadeners that you can buy. If the guy sets up a proper floor, the noise could be reduced a lot. You could ask him to set up a proper platform with the deadeners

Okay. Just to note that if you put graphene on a pixel, you aren’t giving them more data. Just because it’s a Google pixel doesn’t mean they’d have you data in GrapheneOS

What do you mean by give Google more? The only way you give Google more is buying a pixel, but you can buy second hand. I only buy them second hand.

There are now more alternatives from EU companies if second hand still bothers you, but when I started with GrapheneOS, there weren’t many other choices.

If you mean give data to Google, graphene definitely doesn’t do that

Graphene OS for the past year or two. Zero problems and only benefits.

You will need to get used to fiddling with security settings on some apps. For example, banking apps need reduced (meaning standard Android) levels of security. I consider this a feature so I can know which apps to find alternatives for