My employer provides work phones and notebooks. I don’t own these devices, nor do I use these for private purposes. I haven’t heard that local universities mandate proprietary device ownership, though it is possible. I would complain about that.

I only use my (Lineage OS) private phone for cellular telephony, some limited Google apps (Gmail, calendar, weather) and tethering my tablets and my GOS phone. As such any phone or MiFi router (which I’ve used in the past) would do. My work phone is a stock Fairphone.

So I only need a WiFi Linux or Android tablet with decent touch support.

There are Linux distros for tablets, though I haven’t test-driven one yet since there’s Lineage OS and GrapheneOS. I could imagine using an open hardware tablet with a community distro 5-10 years from now.

What a curious article. The Russians have made mincemeat of all Abrams and Leopards delivered, yet the author extolls their virtues. They say they failed because Ukrainians are not using them properly. Yet in a recent combat simulation Ukrainians slaughtered NATO forces. Draw your own conclusions.