Yeah, that's why Jolla provides an interesting middle ground.
It's Linux, but not FOSS, yet increases usability by being able to run Android apps.

So sad to see so much going to shit with floodings here and droughts there.
Wishing you the best to get this awful situation sorted!

Mostly some of the bad parts though like mass surveillance and opression.
Yet economy wise China seems to have their shit together in difference to the USA.

They reconize the importance of e.g. energy independence (from imports) and domestic chip/RAM production while USA tries to play a fool's game with tariffs and hurries to run more of the economy on dinosaur farts (yeah, I'm aware that most fossil fuels aren't made from dinosaur remains...).

There are different ways to get rid of billionaires.
I'm ok with the more humane ways, if they're ok with it.
If not...
...we have the numbers and all it needs is one of their security details being one of us undercover.

Name one, just one, other current phone with almost complete Linux support.
I'm not really holding my breath though.

Nope.
From https://gadgetbridge.org/basics/features/navigation/#supported-devices

Supported devices
Navigation instructions are currently supported by the following devices:

• Bangle.js
• Fossil Hybrid HR (needs unofficial app)
• PineTime
• Huawei (only some watches, unknown which)

Could've been just coicidence and not causation in the granny's case (which is anecdotal as well).
Still I think smartphones - or rather: some apps more than others - pose certain risks of wasting a lot of time.
If that time is missing elsewhere, it's not good.

Not moving/being active a lot because of using a smartphone can take the same toll.

I can't say I agree with all I read about him, but this paragraph I quoted got me thinking and I recognized it as a warning.
I wouldn't say that I'm in favour of a Luddite way of living or want to join the Amish.
I would like having a SWOT analysis of technology though instead of blindly adopting it and dealing with fallout later if ever.
The realist in me realizes that there's money to be made and that's why technology gets shoved down our throats by oligarchs whether we want it or not.

I can't agree with what comes close to euthanizing people by not treating illnesses.
I you try to see it from his supposed point of view, you could argue that even ill people can make worthwhile contributions to society and advance humankind.
Developing tools (or even technology in the case of humans) is known from the animal kingdom to be a form of "survival of the fittest" hence in line with evolution.
You don't have to be perfect to be good enough. The movie Gattaca comes to mind...

I say both can cause problems.
Technology carries the risk of communities falling apart, because people do rely less on one another; technology makes peoples' lives and working more independently possible. Have a look at how many people were needed to plant and harvest crops per acre a hundred years ago vs. now.
I'm not saying this was a world I'd like to live in. I'm just saying that technology alone can have an impact on society, which should be considered and mitigated.

If you add widely unregulated capitalism into the mix, all is on overdrive and I agree that the current predominant form of capitalism is the bigger of the two problems.
The centralizing forces of turbo-capitalism would pose the bigger threat to society even without technology, because it puts too much power that can't be voted away easily in the hands of too few.

Kaczynski wrote that technology has had a destabilizing effect on society, has made life unfulfilling, and has caused widespread psychological suffering. He then called for a revolution to force the collapse of the worldwide technological system, and held a life close to nature, in particular primitivist lifestyles, as an ultimate ideal.

Whelp, looking at where we are now - 30 years later - I can't say he didn't have a point...