Things like the PinePhone and the Librem 5 are cool on paper but if you can’t use it reliably as a phone, it can’t reliably work in standby, the camera sucks, t

Things like the PinePhone and the Librem 5 are cool on paper but if you can’t use it reliably as a phone, it can’t reliably work in standby, the camera sucks, the battery life is anemic, notifications suck, you can’t stream music from it, and the best thing you can say is “I can ssh into it,” which is cool for sure but I can do that (albeit with limitations) using iSH on iOS and is possible to enable on a number of Android distros. And I fully understand that that isn’t the point. The point is the hard work that has gone into this and the selective-amounts of “freedom” (if we convince ourselves that the modems and firmware in these things being absolutely not free software or open doesn’t to a certain extent obviate the entire thought experiment) you get versus another platform. I get it. I’m glad people are working on this stuff and having fun. And at $200, the Pine Phone is at least cheap enough to try out as a toy if you’re into that kind of thing (I think I’d rather jailbreak an older iPhone or use a modified Android device running an alt-OS, but that’s me). The Librem 5 is either $1000 or $2000 depending on what option you get, and that is to me, only for people who either enjoy setting their money on fire or who have been brainwashed by the marketing that it can do what it cannot do for 99.99999% of the population. I dunno. I don’t like being a hater but I don’t see the real point of having a mobile phone that isn’t a usable phone and that is really only usable if plugged into power all the time and used as a stationary mini computer (and thus, no longer mobile), of which a person could build something much more powerful using a Raspberry Pi or other single-board computer or a used NUC.