I did try custom OS in the past (Even overclocked my original Galaxy S), but they all had issues. Or were slow on updates and so on. Out of the box works best for me, I already tinker enough at work, I want my phone to just run :)
Not a fan of screen protectors, they all don't have great reviews, even the expensive glass ones. I also use the phone without a case, so the protector would make the handling of it worse unfortunately.
Thunderbird on Windows, I have used it as far as I can think back (10+ years).
On Android currently FairEmail because the native Gmail app sucks. But it's very much a power user app that's a bit complicated at first, but then works like a charm (It also has a one-time purchase of $5.99 for extra features, no ads, no tracking, no data sent to the app developer).
Hey, just a heads-up: You accidentally selected "English" as post language.
Galaxy S22, iPhone is too locked down for me.
I went with the S22 because it's decent and looks great, also one of the smallest high-end phones available.
Samsung sucks though, there is far too much bloat you have to get rid off. The Galaxy store also likes to hijack updates from a few of my apps.
I'd say there still is no perfect phone unfortunately. Maybe a Google Pixel that looks like a S22 and has a more scratch resistant screen. My screen already has two scratches just from being in my pocket. They made the glass more drop resistant, but now it still shatters if you drop it and it scratches more easily :-/
That's why I just use my own KeePass database synced over Dropbox. Zero issues, it's free and nobody is targeting it. Even if someone got access to my Dropbox they'd still have to crack the encryption.
Lemmy just had a massive update today, give it time.
The update fixed my main gripe: Posts continuing to load while I'm reading and being unreliable. That's now gone :)
Performance also got a big jump.
You take away power users and people fed up with Reddit and the casual user who doesn't care is left over.
If you look at blackout votes it was usually around 4 to 1 in favor.
During and shortly after the blackouts there were a ton of upset casual users calling the mods cunts, the blackouts don't help, stop holding other users hostage, give me back my content!!!
Those users don't care about third party apps, mod tooling and so on, they just want to browse the site. These angry users got the loudest while protestors took a break or left for the Fediverse.
Even worse when you browse /r/all, find an interesting post about some topic, join the discussion, type out a long reply, hit send..
And 3 seconds later you get an automod message that your comment was removed. Because you aren't a subscriber to that (default!!!) sub, or you aren't verified, or you used a word they don't like.
And even worse: You join a discussion, got some good points back and forth, everything is great. You try to reply to the latest comment in that chain to keep the conversation up and suddenly your comments get blocked. Because it was a /r/blackpeopletwitter post (you didn't even notice as you found it on /r/all) and at some point they only locked it down for verified black users, kicking you out of the discussion.
I mean sure, have your own space on Reddit (even if it's basically racism), that's fine. But then subs like these shouldn't be default subs on /r/all when they constantly lock down threads.
You can swear here. Try it out: Fucked
But yeah, I'm going to miss RIF, it was the best way to use Reddit on Android :-/
Too lazy to type it myself, so from Google:
The 3-2-1 backup strategy simply states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different media (disk and tape) with one copy off-site for disaster recovery.
"Disk and tape" is a bit outdated, but you get the gist. A good strategy could be your main computer, your phone, some cloud drive (so it's in another location).
Gated communities on Reddit suck.
A thread hits /r/all, you type out a long comment in reply to someone, hit send.. then get an automod message that your comment was denied. Because you aren't part of that subreddit, or you aren't verified in that subreddit.
Probably the worst example was /r/blackpeopletwitter. They have open threads where you can talk with people. Then at some point they lock down their threads (make it verified black users only) and your next comment in a chain of replies simply gets nuked. Even though you had a civil discussion and just wanted to continue it.
Often those threads aren't even about race, just general things happening. Reddit has shitty support to lock things down where the UI doesn't get greyed out. So you already type a long reply, hit send and only then you get kicked out. I had to block several of those subreddits because I kept running into this issue when browsing /r/all.
That was released 6 years ago.. so what you have might be a bug that has been long fixed. Or the phone using WiFi for location services (to help GPS).
Either way, you need to update (custom ROM maybe?) or get a new phone. Using Android 8 is a security risk.