Decided to OpenSource instead of Software Patent (as my employer was urging me). Nowadays, that technique is used in every decent Image CDN + compression tool. Still proud to see it everywhere. Maybe it wouldn't have made it if had been patented.
Went on my 1st date after divorce. Sat down together at a café. After greeting each other, she immediately asks "So when do you intend to move to my town?". I reply by saying "Whoa! Take it slow. Let's get to know each other first!" and feeling that she can't be serious about her question.
She, however, explodes in my face that she has a life and a kid in that other town and no time to waste. I managed to reply that I have a life and kids in this current town we're in, too, before she jumps up and storms away cursing.
Not the most conducive first post-marital dating experience.
Regarding security: as always, it depends on your threat model. If you fear a government actor getting access to your phone, a locked bootloader won't slow them down.
Regarding privacy: I've had both VPN logs and external Wireshark running against traffic going in&out of my custom ROM phones & sometimes I still do it for fun. If you know what you're getting into (e.g. LoS still using some Google services) then a Custom ROM usually holds far fewer surprises than some questionable OEM ROM (and which is terrifyingly scarce regarding changelogs while still having OTA update power).
tl;dr: stick with well-known ROMs & you get ... not the best of both worlds ... but a "good enough" of both worlds.
Decided to OpenSource instead of Software Patent (as my employer was urging me). Nowadays, that technique is used in every decent Image CDN + compression tool. Still proud to see it everywhere. Maybe it wouldn't have made it if had been patented.