I have heard that 20.04 will be supported until 2027.

Only if its support period somehow got extended, normal LTS support period is 5 years.

Also in their blog they said they’re planning to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 base OS when that comes out.

Must have missed that then. That’s reassuring, in that case.

Ubuntu Touch is not even that up to date, really. It only recently rebased to 20.04 from 16.04 and 20.04 will go EOL next year, while there’s still no promises on how they plan on transitioning to the next LTS release (I get that they’re a team of volunteers while Google is a massive corporation, but working on what was essentially abandonware to begin with was likely a disservice, as other mobile Linux distros can follow the upstream a lot more closely than Ubports does).

Your arguments are right, indeed, though they are rendered a bit moot when we’re in a thread discussing Ubuntu Touch, which is like, 10 times more insecure than any custom Android ROM, since it uses a desktop Linux security model pretty much.

Out of curiosity, how is it wrt messaging apps? From what I remember, the only good one used to be TELEports (for Telegram), but if you wanted to use Signal or such you were pretty much out of luck. Has the situation changed?

That is true, but GrapheneOS is only available for Pixel phones (for good reasons, but still, a lot of people can’t just switch phones on a whim).

That does make sense. It is a country with a fairly small population, so I begrudgingly have to accept that it has to have some control over this kind of thing, not to overload its public systems.

On the whole I think the concept of countries in general is bullshit but that’s a debate best had in another thread.

The thing with the children of migrants being denied residency is truly heartbreaking. Do they become stateless as a result?

I found out about the autism because I am autistic and I was considering New Zealand as a potential country to migrate to until I found out about that. I also found out about the plethora of other conditions that bar you from immigration but it started with my personal search.

I also wonder whether they measure the “burden on the healthcare system” in a fair or ableist/biased manner. Your link seems to suggest the former, but it also excludes ability to pay for private healthcare/insurance, which would preclude one from putting said burden on the public healthcare system and leaves the decision up to a medical professional, who may hold said biases, so…

It includes autism, which really enraged me when I found out. That’s one less country in this already progressively anti-immigration world… Well two, because Australia does the same wrt autistic people (and likely other health conditions).