Ask HN: How do you daily drive your Linux phone?

If you've managed to do it, what have you learned?

I've personally given up on the pinephone pro as a portable device, though I'm still curious if I can make the uconsole + 4G modem work as a clunky portable.

In the intervening years of experimentation (since ~2014) I have been hopping from flip-phone to flip-phone, first as newer models began to gain better support for MMS messages, then more recently when 3G began to phase out.

The best thing for me personally seems to be to just avoid the whole smartphone lifestyle altogether. Is that the only way, or are there still niches of possibility with linux phones?