It’s loading a lot of content locally, and very very slowly before you can even use it.

All I’m looking for in life is a little peace to mind

If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.

It precisely means that is not going to be the case.

The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.

Any Arch/Debian. If you’re picking Distros based on which UI they package, you’re doing your self dirty by ignoring options that might be more what you want. You can always swap out the UI. It’s not a corr part of most distros.

DHS recently revised their guidelines to include their mobile operations in the no fly zones. So now you literally cannot fly a drone near them in the US. You need your phone and a good body cam or two to boot.