If you need a FOSS, cross platform GUI for bootable USB sticks, Raspberry Pi Imager is a really good solution.
It is mainly used to flash SD cards for RPIs, but also you can burn any ISO on any support with it.

Yeah, but usually thieves sell the stolen phones to people that are slightly smarter and better organized

This is my second iteration of CalyxOS, I used to rock a Pixel 4a and now I’m on a Fairphone 5, and I love it. It’s rock solid and never had a compatibility issue, although I heard that some banking apps might misbehave with microg, but not in my experience.
Graphene has pretty much the same approach but instead of supporting microg, has decided to take the route of sandboxing Google Services, which is a better route for compatibility at the expense of letting some of your data leak through once in a while.
/e/OS is a wonderful project on paper, but in my experience it was the one with more issues and bugs: they try to support as many devices and services as possible, providing a full environment that’s easy to setup for any user, but having to deal with so may things makes them a little hit or miss sometimes. Nonetheless I still believe they’re a great project that brings privacy to the less techy people with a (mostly) working ecosystem.
LineageOS isn’t focused on privacy but in extending the life cycle of devices after they’ve been discontinued, so if your concern is to be private I’d go with something else.

Don’t underestimate the bootloader locking feature: once your whole life is connected to one device, you don’t want a guy with a USB cable be able to access it in case of loss/theft. DON’T ASK ME HOW I KNOW IT.

Writing from a 3 years old 4a running CalyxOs: the phone is a perfect choice if you want a small sized phone with a 3.5mm jack and that gets constant updates. The camera might be a little better but I don’t take many pictures so I don’t mind.

I have no clue, to be honest. Maybe you can find more info on Konstakang’s site.
I never asked myself those questions because I have literally the cheapest TV with an HDMI port I could find

Raspberry Pi 4 + Konstakang LineageOS TV

I think it will come for RPI 5 too but as for now there’s onli for the 4

I work for a small 2 people company, we recently switched to Infomaniak and there are a couple of things that need improvement, mainly the support for a better lite mode in Linux: they provide a WebDav connection but it’s a bit slow, even if workable.
On the positive side, we got also a custom domain for the mail box and website that was quite cheap and easy to set up. And the fact that’s all FOSS is great

I don’t know dude, you can downscale your needs all you want but if you drop your phone on the ground and break the screen you can only hope there are third party manufacturer that still produces it or you can toss it away.

I believe that the price is reasonable overall: it has good specs and now that FP is an established brand you know it won’t go out of business and support will last. /e/OS has become good enough lately to be reliable to daily drive (it requires some initial adjustment, but nothing to be worried about).
Also, they are phones that withhold their value in the secondary market: a used FP3+ on ebay costs more than 400€ and it had a launch price of 439€, so you can easily sell them for a good price if you ever change your mind about owning one.
The only thing that makes me hesitant to buy one is the fact that now the EU is pushing a lot of consumer friendly laws, like mandatory USB-C, replaceable batteries, extended software support and so on… So in two or three years the smartphone market might offer more high-end products that are long lasting and have a more accessible price tag. It only depends on how much time can you wait.

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I use Librera every day: the user interface looks a bit outdated but has support for any format known to man and a ton of features (and I mean A TON)

I threw up twice and got a sore throat so bad I had to take medicines for two weeks.
But hey, it worked. Maybe if you have to do it, just stop after the first pack…

So US isn’t “free”, but “discounted” at best?

in fact I said “in all FREE countries”

First of all I was joking, as I know that selling your friends’ personal data without thier consent is not only immoral but also ILLEGAL in all free countries. If you, for some reason, need this to be be clarified, I do not endorse giving away other people’s personal data.
Second: when my father found two boxes of cigarettes in my bedroom when I was 13, he made me smoke all of them in one sitting. I never smoked again.
Shock therapy works sometimes, so there’s your logic kid.

1. Create an IG account with a burner email and join the chat
2. Sell all other member’s data to advertisement, scam telephone services, mailing lists, etc… subscribe all of them to newsletters from amazon and pornsites (or just wait for all of that to happen naturally)
3. Wait for someone to bring this up
4. “I told you, we should move to Signal”
5. Bring everyone over
6. Win

I stopped using /e/OS last year and switched to CalyxOS.
The problem I had comes probably from the fact that /e/ tries to cover as many phones as possible (almost 230 as of now) without having a big enough testing pool, so stuff would break constantly even on the “officially supported” devices. And when you pointed out your problem on their forum, the answer you met was frequently something like “the problem is in your phone model, we can’t do a lot about it”.
Calyx instead supports only Pixel phones and a couple others, including the FP4, it’s always tested for good (they have both a stable and a beta branch you can easily switch between) and their android and microG versions are usually more up to date.
Oh, and the Calyx community is one on the nicest and most helpful on the planet