I understand your feeling. I guess one can build "trust" or at least a somewhat "safe" feeling from simplicity, technical arguments, experience of a given evil

I understand your feeling. I guess one can build "trust" or at least a somewhat "safe" feeling from simplicity, technical arguments, experience of a given evil ... I "feel safe" running linux or openbsd on a "computer" given that I know only too well how flawed they can be. A mobile device could offer exactly the same feeling, and maybe better objective security characteristics, but unfortunately a "mobile device" doesn't seem to be defined as a "computer" you can single handedly operate but as a mix of short lived dependencies from hardware manufacturers to walled proprietary app stores through network carriers. I don't dismiss the technical progress that is eventually happening in the mobile area but I think I'll pass as long as something as postmarketos offers what I feel is sustainable.