Interests: News, Finance, Computer, Science, Tech, and Living
Head phone jack. My 8a sadly has none. Not sure any recent Pixels do. I use combination of some HP OTC hearing aids and a Senhouser headset, both blue tooth.
Files transfer. I mosly use Nextcloud or just plugin my phone to my computer directly with USB. I have used syncthing and ssh too. Debian should work but I have more experince with Ubuntu and the USB method works fine there.
I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a. About 6 months in. The recent “a” series models are a pretty good deal as they come with 7 years of updates from initial release.
I love GrapheneOS. Pretty much just works. Many Apps do not even have to have google play installed. There are some apps that may not run. Typically those that require an original authentic device. My banking app did not run originally but now it does. Not sure but I think I had issues with the UPS app for some reason. I switched to the web for that.
Usually openvpn via tls port 443 is the least blocked.
This is why I do not use a rolling release distro.
Linux only, SSH works fine. Not e2ee. Nextcloud works fine but extra work unless you use a service provider. It can be e2ee but not normally so. Syncthing worth a look too. It is not cloud storage, but direct device transfer. Bitwarden send is useful too if you want to juat send file someone, and thunderbird is working on thunderbird send which might be interesting.
Maybe Synology if you want your own lan NAS?
This is the answer. GrapheneOS still needs the binary blob updates from Google or probably more correctly Googles suppliers.