In my experience, WhatsApp does not send an image unchanged. So it doesn’t matter if the recipient can handle it, as long as WhatsApp’s conversion can

Great battery life and linux unfortunately are a hard task and linux support is often spotty for consumer devices.

Sticking to used business hardware is usually a good start, but you should check for compability issues nonetheless.

Used t490 / t480. Can you elaborate on the “heavy limited by space”?

No I’m not catastrophising.

2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all

Yeah, I don’t know about that.