People have self-control, but big tech has manipulative UI.

patent-pending technology

What? Simple access control is now patent-pending?

The Android container allows installing Android apps, sp that is simple to circumvent.

Also, no mainline kernel means it is expensive trash within a couple years. I'll pass on this one, I'll rather continue porting Linux to phones myself... I don't want trash.

correlation

explains

No.

By the way, this is a trivial problem to correct.

No. It isn't.

It is a hard problem to solve. Tom Scott made a video on it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-rGJKSZ3s

This is what BlackBerries did, a while ago. I wish we had something like that nowadays.

What are those Niri and DMS things?

Hum, pralines and dick does not actually sound all that bad.

Still, I don't want LLMs...

Perhaps consider looking at the Debian wiki to see whether there's any advice for thise model and see whether the Mac iso file Debian provides can help you.

It's not a myth, it works for a short while and is a recipe for burnout.

That graph has double labelling for the vertical axis. What do those labels mean?