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That's basically what I was thinking. I would have a "normie" phone that has all the stuff modern society expect people to have, which would also have my sim card in it. Then I'd have a second device, not necessarily a "phone" but just something portable. Could be a Pinephone, or some Non-Google Android phone, or maybe a handheld PC (but I would need like a backpack for it, can't fit a SteamDeck in pocket unfortunately). The "normie" phone would then hotspot the internet to my other device.
A pocket linux pc would be great. Why do you want to keep the sim in the normie phone? Or is that just in case you get a handheld that doesnt have a sim slot?
Because the thing is, phones are not PCs. You can connect almost anything to a wifi network (cuz otherwise, many of those cheap wifi smart gadgets wouldn't work, I highly doubt they are gonna police wifi networks any time soon), but with cell towers, the carriers control which devices they allow to connect to their towers.
Example: In Australia, the have a phone whitelist system, where older phones are banned from connecting to cell networks, including for emergency calls. Something like a fairphone, pinephone, librem 5, would definitely not be on the whitelist, and thus would not be able to connect.
Now, the US, where I live, hasn't done this yet, but the writing is on the wall, might as well get used to it, and have a, sort of, "Standard Operating Procedure" developed for it so that when they do start doing the whitelisting thing, I would already be prepared for it.
Hence, TLDR:
Banking, Government stuff, SIM Card, all goes on the "Normie" phone.
Everything else, on my actual private Phone (or Pocket PC) that I watch youtube videos on, torrent tv shows/movies, write a journal, browse the dark web, Lemmy, etc...
At least that's the plan, I have to change a lot of my habits and get used to this new way of using tech.