alt Hacker NewsI've been doing this for years already, except I split it further to three devices:
1) an old iPhone with 0 personal data on it and in no way linked to my identity, which is used for completely untrustable commercial apps, and rarely even leaves the house.
2) a LineageOS Android which is my daily smartphone for things like camera and GPS, running almost exclusively open source apps, except for unavoidables like WhatsApp which are run in an separate profile
3) a GPD Micro PC running Void Linux, which is roughly the same size as the phone and a true swiss army knife. Its purpose is to reliably do what I want, when I want it. No systemd, for it does not spark joy. It is used for web browsing, note taking, light productivity, and playing movies on the TVs of friends who have overinvested in streaming and dongles only to find that $CHOSEN_MOVIE is not on any of their services.
I am not entirely happy with this state of affairs - too many devices, and still not enough siloing of closed apps like WhatsApp.
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Keeping all those devices charged is already too much of a hassle for me to do this.
It seems to me that they way you have divided up the roles, you actually need 4 devices, because you need one to run commercial apps which are linked to identity (which rules out device 1) and which will only run on a "secure" device (which rules out 2 and 3). For example banking apps.