Just purchased a PPP, how screwed am I?

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The title sounds negative but I say it with humor. Just to set my expectations, I'm currently using an F1 Orchid by Sunbeam Wireless. It's a flip phone and my phone before that was a iPhone 12 Mini. So I've already gone through the stage of losing essentially all smartphone functionality and on top of that, because the flip phone I use is from a niche manufacturer, I've even experienced the joys of carrier whitelists. So really, the only expectation I have is that the PPP function as a phone. I need it to be able to consistently receive calls and SMS/MMS whether suspended or not. Any particular US carrier recommended for best compatibility? Which OS/DE is most recommended currently for my purposes? I've looked at past threads but none seem current or answer the questions I have. My plan was to use pmOS with KDE as my ideal scenario but I could get used to GNOME or Phosh if needed. I plan on flashing the FOSS firmware for the modem as reports seem to indicate it improves the experience.

How is the software development progressing and where can I contribute monetarily? I looked at pmOS but they aren't interested in such donations.

It is a lost cause for now. Go read the instructions on the MAIN site. They are wrong and not updated with their own stuff. I have tried kali which was terrible and died after trying to install nethunter. Mobian is terrible and can't update or install anything. The different manjaro distros have no set up, wrong user and password. No distro has a setup which is actually specified in all their instructions. There is no set up so if you do not immediatly try to get users and passwords your locked out. I just got this POS and I am hoping I can return it. This is not a 400 dollar device. An rpi with a flip phone is a thousand times better.

I have mobian installed
Update it every few days - via the terminal 
I installed what I need 

How are you trying to update the Mobian ? Maybe I can help