I never trusted it because I thought it was completely proprietary. Well now I know it basically is.
Stability for the end user is very good (probably even one of the best and definitely many times better than KDE) but stability for developers is not good because things often change or get deprecated which breaks the apps and the extensions they make.
Well GNOME does create instability and confusion too.
What language do you have set on your system and what terminal are you using?
3 years is not that much unless the user doesn’t mind changing phones rather often and beating up a phone in such a short time is just a massive skill issue tbh.
Well if you recommend getting an older phone because it’s cheaper, GrapheneOS support may be a concern. Also I think a phone usually can last for 7 years with 1 battery replacement, good ambient temperature and careful use.
Well if the support ends, GrapheneOS support ends too. That’s why more years of support is important here.
Didn’t Signal update their protocol to make it post-quantum?
Good but sad it’s disabled by default for now.
I think it’s very nice to have a sibling who’s interested in Linux just like you are.
EU countries are going full on fighting privacy now.
Not really. It has a quite small file size limit afaik.
Use ext4. It just works.
Well privacy costs money now unless you can live without electronics.
Alternatively you can just buy a used one from a private seller.
I use LineageOS because my phone is not a Pixel and it works fine for me. If you don’t want to pay Google for a Pixel, buy a used one. Other than that LOS is fine. It doesn’t have anonymization features like /e/OS or something like that but it doesn’t force nor promote any apps or ecosystems (except for Seedvault but it’s not a big deal) and it is FOSS
But there should at least be a way to prohibit them to share the data with third parties.