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Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.

Gladly this practice is illegal in Finland at lest. Here companies having sales have to show the lowest price of that product within the last 30 days just for this very reason.

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.

Signed it months ago.

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.