Any idea how long support will last for the 8?

Google Pixel 8 October 2030 7 years

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

GrapheneOS is the way to go with a Pixel phone. Wifi calling works just fine on my Pixel 8. As does VoLTE.

Not all distros ship SELinux and the ones that do, don’t actually configure it securely.

You’re welcome to work with distro maintainers to fix this instead of just complaining about it.

New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.

This is a big problem

Most if not all of the Linux Distros in 2025 ship with Grub bootloader, which suffers from a lot of problems, instead of using the bootloaders that does not support BIOS and will improve the reliability of booting and provide a more stable experience.

You’re welcome to work with distro maintainers to fix this instead of just complaining about it.

Mobile radio communication is encrypted between you and the tower. Newer protocols have better encryption then older. That’s why Stingray tracker is bad since it can force phones to use older vulnerable protocols.

Coming up with a decent domain name has been the challenge for me. You can’t really put on to your cv or so something like me@thebestmfofalltime.com. You can but that doesn’t sound very professional.

That’s usually the answer to these kind of questions.

Mine too.

the humanism of Fahrenheit.

How? Fahrenheit scale is totally incomprehensible. Celsius at least is using a rational point for 0 (=where water freezes) and same scale as Kelvin.

Choosing a decent service is usually the easy part (at least with the help of this community). The hard part is to change your email address everywhere.

As they use imap, caldav and carddav for email, calendar and contacts you can use any app you want e.g. thunderbird.

Edit: They even have a moving service so you can move your existing emails from gmail to them.

I’m using filen.io. E2ee and zero knowledge service from Germany. Their desktop client just works.

Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.

Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL’d in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.

Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.

So windows 10 isn’t EOL’d in October 2025 after all.

A solution is not to use any product, service or software made by MS or google.

Haven’t actually tried but I have bad experiences with Linux and dual graphics laptops.

I game on Tumbleweed but on some rare occasions I use windows e.g. my gaming laptop doesn’t have Linux.

I only use LibreWolf on my pc’s and IronFox or Vanadium on my phone. All except Vanadium have uBlock Origin with all social media blocked. I also use Mullvad vpn with social media blocking at dns level. In addition where vpn is not configured I use Mullvad’s dns with all content blocking enabled. Of course no Meta or another social media apps on my Graphene OS phone (except Mastodon and Lemmy). As a cherry on top I use a Linux based OS (OpenSuse Tumbleweed) on my computers primarily (some Windows usage for some gaming).

MicroG is somewhat hacky solution that emulates play services. When you have proper play services you do have all the functionality available. Since it’s sandboxed play services don’t have any privileged access to the system thus can only access data which is available to any normal app.

If you have apps that require play services you can install them to another profile in GOS. Profiles stay active if you like and you can get notifications from other profiles as well. That way you can limit data exposure for play services and apps using them. I do this on my GOS and it works very nice. Though you should use Aurora store to get play store apps (you can get it from f-droid). Many apps from play store work well with out play services.

According to wikipedia Forgejo development is run by Codeberg which is a non-profit organization so I doubt they will start charging money. GitLab is managed by a for-profit corporation so anything is possible with them.