The installation was very easy! It's very greatful that my data doesn't send to Google any more.
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It still works but sadly it got the "no sim card" syndrome, so no longer a daily phone option...
Had that on one of mine too (my main one I used for many years). Yes thats very bad, nearly unfixable and you can only use it with a second phone which provides a hotspot.
But in case you want to get rid of it it would be great if you sent it to the team for development purposes (You can reach them on their mailing list https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maemo-leste) or even I would be happy if you send it to me, so that I have spare parts and maybe I will dare to try to fix the modem.
(Some people had success with stripping all temperature sensitive parts and plastics from the mainboard and baking the mainboard in the oven)
In case you want to to keep it, believe me, I fully understand :) Maybe one day you will get the urge to fiddle with it again.