Pinephone pro and consequences for pinephone users

[ryo]

I never said you can run the latest software. Software keeps getting more complicated, so at some point you have to upgrade your hardware or run something more lightweight.

yup.

But progress is always a good thing and with GNU/Linux we can at least still use those old devices and get newest security patches, which isn't usually the case on other operating systems.

Progress depends on which progress, because it's far from always a good thing.
Progress can be made to make software better, but it could also be made to make software worse.

Like the whole package manager thing I recently mentioned.
What's wrong with the native package manager of whatever distribution you're using?
Why do we need to slap Flatpack, Snaps, Steam (if you count that as a package manager that is), pip (can be used to install full software), npm (likewise, can be used to install full software) etc?
At that point you're only making progress towards a more complicated and more buggy experience.

And then there's chat apps.
Remember when everyone was on either XMPP or ICQ or MSN or Yahoo Messenger?
Then all of the sudden the MSN and Yahoo users moved to Skype, which got bought by Microsoft, who progressed it into implementing spyware all over the place and effectively destroyed the project.
Then Discord became the superior platform over Skype, until it progressed to become even more of a spyware than Skype, so now people are again seggregating into either Matrix or Rocket.chat or yet another Electron app (all the new platforms since Discord are Electron sadly) of which I forgot the name of which at this moment seem to be progressing into the right direction at least.