as someone who has a similar setup of sudo needing reauth after a while, i can tell you that it’s really no issue. keep in mind it only prompts you for a password when using sudo, meaning it prompts you when you run sudo su, and then su is just running. for as long as su keeps running, you don’t need to rerun sudo su, meaning you don’t need to reauthenticate.

in other words. the reauthentication requirement will never kill any running processes. it just requires a password when running sudo.

edit: also, i would recommend sudo su - instead, because it makes sure you get the env vars that root uses. running sudo su has lead to lots of head scratching personally. (especially on debian where /sbin binaries are not in the path when using su without the dash)

i was not advocating for this UP phone in any way and am sorry if it seemed that way. my next phone will indeed be running on GrapheneOS.

I was just trying to point out that using third party vpn infrastructure can make sense, even though i wouldn’t trust the vpn of UP in any way. trust is a difficult thing, but as of right now i’m liking mullvad.

tbf, i do have some trust in mullvad. and if i own the server, people might know its me because its my server. (as in, the only one using it and possibly some tethers to my name through accounts and payments)