That’s why Plasma is built to support different shells, optimized for different form factors which allows to do this stuff like the Netbook shell in the past or now Plasma Bigscreen for TVs or Plasma Mobile for smartphones.

That’s actually what they’re doing. They built their own messenger based on Matrix.

You might want to watch the latest “Rare Earth” video “I Overheard a Secret Chinese Meeting in Micronesia on Vacation” for some context what’s going on in this region…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXCsemt-js

zram did wonders back then to the performance/usability of Palm/HP webOS devices, especially the 1st Pre.

If you calculate what you’d spend on regular phones with a 2-3 year lifetime instead of a single one for 8 years (even including a few repairs), it might be actually cheap.

What can be done is to stop electing neo-liberal/right-wing/conservative politicians in the EU, so Frontex can be turned upside-down to do the job it’s needed for - helping people at our borders, instead of actively or passively killing them!