Seems you may have to start getting good at SMD rework soon.

Either freedom or zip. I'd sooner bang rocks together than use a phone I can't compile the OS for. The number of required binary blobs is a foul enough insult already.

You can always move to a phone that runs on mainline Linux proper.

Not seriously, IMO.

I have been daily driving one for two years.

Did you spend a few thousand on a purism, tolerate the woeful hot and slow character of a pinephone, or something else?

Less sardonically: I am a Linux Person but couldn't imagine really using one of those things today. It would probably kneecap my whole life in subtle ways; in the US using android already does.

The former. And yes, it did change my life for the worse for a while. I think I’m well past the trough of despair by now though.