That looks pretty sick yea sadly I looked into and like you said more of tinker device then a daily driver. I tried Ubuntu touch on a pixel 3a before. I went into it with low expectations but Ubuntu touch is decent. Close to functional enough to almost be a daily driver.
I got a one of these for mobile laptop running linux its pretty sweet but not a phone.
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