If in the future i’m ever forced to drop smart phones because of further proprietary/removal of open source option then i’m definitely going this route.

have a dumb phone and just rely on a good laptop.

On second thought… maybe this is the way.

I think you mean Iran, and not Jordan, since Jordan has a peace treaty.

Using rsync in a bash script to backup my files.

I have no idea but hopefully the ‘Proprietary’ branch of human technology is discontinued.