Eh, kind of? I’ve been using it as a phone on-and-off for a while now, the most annoying things are the awful call audio setup (I don’t think it’s even possible to call via bluetooth headphones), no wake-on-call (which sucks for a phone), lack of a good map app (I miss OsmAnd so badly), meh battery life, and other small paper cuts here and there like semi-broken push notifications and buggy GPS.

I’m avoiding all the anbox/waydroid faffing around for now, in hopes that I will be able to run OsmAnd through android-translation-layer at some point.

Looks like Dimensity 900 is in the same ballpark performance-wise as Snapdragon 845 in my now 7-year-old OnePlus 6, which runs Mobile NixOS with a (patched) mainline kernel, no Hallium trickery. While having another Linux-first phone is nice and I’m sure the experience would be better (like you wouldn’t need to flash an old OxygenOS just for GPS to work), I’d be expecting more for $550.

Ah yes, one of the biggest bugs-later-turned-design-mistakes of UNIX. This is not tar, this is your shell; you always need to use both * and .* for a wildcard to match all files in directory - e.g. tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* admin/.* api/* api/.* mobile/* mobile/.*