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I don’t have any statistics, but I’ve heard that OpenBSD has more dogfooding than FreeBSD.

For most computer users, the OS itself isn’t the hobby. It’s a tool that lets them do things like writing, browsing, drawing, gaming, etc, projects of various kinds, concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown, in a word using their computer. It does not help them to say that ed(1) is the standard editor and that vi is bloated.

Mint is a solid choice.
Ps. My (unsolicited) advice is this: at any time, make sure you have at least one computer that works.

What was the issue?

Alternatively: when you want to not worry for two years.

I agree, I’ve been running debian for, idk, 10-15 years now. Sometimes I try other distros, but Debian feels like home. I love how they use Condorcet voting, the social contract, the community.

Debian currently has some drama in their ftpmasters team, they argue with the debian project leader, then their team was disbanded in favor of two new teams, then some quit, etc. Seems like the usual open source way of doing things. Hopefully it won’t affect the releases.

Ah! I didn’t know they didn’t sell there, that changes things.

The pro versions will be much more expensive than the “a” models (like 9a, 8a, 7a, etc), if you can find an “a”-phone, it will be cheaper. I would get at least an 8a, since they have support until 2030 or something like that, the 7a has support until 2027. The 6a is the oldest one which still has support, but only for a year or so more iirc.

How much is a refurbished pixel 8a in your country?

Would there be any benefit in running google play services in a private space, or does the sandboxing already provide that separation?

I got a pixel 9a for 370 euro in Sweden, which isn’t too bad. You can get a good refurbished 7 for less and it will have support for years to come.

In my country everything is built around this 2FA app that requires Google Play Services. But a phone with GrapheneOS and sandboxed google play should be better in total than just running stock android I guess? I wish I didn’t need google play services, but currently I do.

You can also contribute if you feel some content is missing, start a community or contribute things to an existing one. Quality is the result of care.

Is that real? Can one hypothetically actually get them? If so, where?

For some reason this made me think of spaghetti, which is straight until it gets hot and wet, and actually, SpaghettiOS would not be a bad name for a distro. Except for trademark issues etc, but still.