Shamot

And there is still the 14 eyes agreement

It doesn't interoperate well with FOSS software like K9 and Thunderbird.

Libretube works for me, but not Tubular.

He wants to try before accepting the deal.

I don't know if there exists such a thing as GrapheneOS account, but it is not required. You can add Google, Facebook or other accounts like with regular Android. I use a self hosted Nextcloud instance to synchronize contacts and calendar with DavX5 app. GrapheneOS has built-in apps. I use most of them. For the app stores I mostly use Fdroid and Aurora store for non open source software. I don't use Google play store even sandboxed because I don't accept the terms of use, mostly because they have the right to uninstall apps from your phone without consent or notice.

Some like Phind or Perplexity cite their sources. And they give you directly the answer you're looking for without having to search it in a mess of "subscribe to our newsletter", "other articles that may interest you", 3 paragraphs of "if you read this article, you will know what you want to know", "special promotion for you",…

And pay in cash

Apple speaks like overprotective parents that don't want their kids to leave home alone.

I think my first donation would be to GrapheneOS.

A few years ago, I've read an article where the journalists investigated this. They asked to Facebook it they actually do it and Facebook confirmed.

The argument that Debian doesn't have the latest packages is only valid for stable repository, right?

Wouldn't Debian with unstable or testing repo be better than Linux Mint?

This is an important criteria for me. If I can't read the full article without leaving the reader and without a WebView, I won't keep the RSS feed.