Firmware updates.
It won't help after it gives the data to the bad actor. It needs just a few seconds for it.
Someone can inject malware into any app if they're an employee of the developer company or a trusted contributor. Never ever give apps unnecessary permissions. It's just seeking for trouble in one way or another.
Mint has user-friendly tools that are much better than Fedora's lack of tools and openSUSE's YAST for beginners.
Is that a Russian website?
It's extremely old for a new daily driver phone you want to buy and for Android updates.
The only "new" compact phones I know are iPhone Mini and some Asus Zenphone. Neither have custom ROM support afaik and both don't seem to be in production anymore. Medium size phones (6-6.4 inches) are not compacts.
Sorry I am really blind recently. A new 4A is a terrible deal
These are older than Pixel 4A lol.
It goes for like $80-120 in my country. For the price it's an interesting deal but it's extremely old so GrapheneOS won't support it. I think you can still find something like LineageOS or crDroid but tbh it's too old for a new daily driver. Lack of firmware updates will kill custom ROMs due to incompatibility with new Android versions eventually (and most likely very soon).
Compact phones are dead now and the last ones don't even seem to support degoogled custom ROMs. You're out of lack with that.
Yea we need to say it all the time.