You can use Fire Toolbox to disable the crap on Fire and install Play Store.

https://xdaforums.com/t/windows-linux-tool-fire-toolbox-v39-0.3889604/

The Xiaomi tablets are pretty great and reliable - Xiaomi Pad 7. The Alldocube tablets are very decent too - iPlay 60.

There is also the Fire HD 10.

I’ve used all 3. Great tablets at different price points.

There is a standalone app, Microsoft Lens. Surprisingly good app.

Google is late to the party. Even Microsoft had such an app years ago.

You are welcome.

The Redmi Note 13 Pro. Ticks most your boxes.

It has great custom rom support. It does not have SD card tho.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/205155985/how-to-disable-access-for-internet-for-a-specific-apps?hl=en

https://www.guidingtech.com/top-ways-to-block-apps-from-accessing-internet-on-android/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.tuantv.android.netblocker&hl=en_US&gl=US

Certain Android versions… when you go into any app settings you can disable mobile data or WiFi if you don’t want the app to access.

Tap and hold on the app -> app info -> network access -> block whatever you want.

I use SwiftKey and switch off the app access to the Internet.

Also trying out FUTO keyboard. Seems pretty good.

https://keyboard.futo.org/

There is no custom rom for this and there won’t be. It uses a MediaTek SOC. The bootloaders cannot be unlocked.

This was 5 years ago at a usd200mil multinational…

The email system was pop3. There were no document backups. There was no collaboration tools. There was no IT security. You could basically copy company data out and no one would ever find out. The MS Office license was bought singly. Ahem!

A Surface RT … Slow, barely any software support. Totally lost whatever trust I had for Microsoft.

I’d definitely play an updated Freespace game.

FreeSpace 1 and 2!

I liked both Interstellar and Inception. I hated Tenet - on how the story was told and the inaudible sound (eye roll).

Check out Chris Titus’s one tool for Windows privacy debloat. It saved my sanity.

Many of them are on Telegram. Try looking for the groups by device name.

Thank you for the recommendation. One of the best foss weather apps I’ve seen and with widgets too.

Alternatively I use Newpipe and testing Grayjay.

grayjay.app

The 12 Pro is Mediatek SOC. They don’t open source their chipsets. https://xdaforums.com/t/research-supported-mtk-custom-roms.4265209/

That being said… Check out GSI roms and DSU. I’ve not tried it out tho.

The 13 Pro is a Qualcomm SOC.