Interesting reading, thank you! While I'm not looking to switch just now, I want to stay up to date since Linux seems like only really viable option going forward. May I ask you how about wireless payment or banking stuff work on Linux?

Should we tell him?

it's become sort of like a "death by a thousand papercuts" situation.

That's the plan. At least since Kitkat (4.4).

Too bad it's Sailfish

I've been thinking about this for years

Ubuntu Touch looking pretty solid, with waydroid. Seems like it can do all the basics well enough! Maybe the time is coming

This comes up every few months and I get downvoted to shit for saying it, but Linux phones are nowhere near as secure as Android phones yet and shouldnt be used as daily drivers for anything involving your PII. Theres practically no sandboxing or permission control, and theres no measured/verified boot implementation.

Has anyone kept up with the original PinePhone / what the most up to date ditros are for it? I have one laying around and would love to get something newer on there as I currently have a very old build of Mobian. Much like the author, I'm really not liking the direction Google has been heading and the experience gets more miserable by the day

You wanna try Communist Huawei's Eavesdropping-oriented OS - Harmony?

I thought Jolla / Sailfish was the only viable option for a daily driver.

Why not switch to GrapheneOS or LineageOS? The former offers more security at the cost of being limited to Pixels and soon-to-be Motorola phones. The latter offers more privacy and greater device support at the cost of not being able to relock the device's bootloader after installing.

tl;dr: "I'm sticking with Android."