I have no alternative but used phone + lineageOS; the stuff you’re mentioning (new phone with whatever crap they installed on there) isn’t even on my radar as an option.

as to longevity, it’s a stop-gap to hold us over until postmarketOS or any of its brethren are ready. banking on the benevolence of evilcorp to give us this thing for free for ever isn’t a viable strategy.

you should aim at $100ish (used obv) and make it as fungible as possible. a lost or stolen or exploded phone is then a no biggie. it’s encrypted by default so nobody can get at your shit, it’s easily replaced with another one, restore data, roll on. so it doesn’t matter which one you get, as long it has official lineageOS support. go to https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices click on “filter” and choose the latest LOS version (22.2 as of now) and then pick and choose whatever’s in that budget.

edit: replacing the battery on the 6a is also possible, youtube for details; not the easiest thing out there but not that hard either, especially when it’s doomed anyhow.

thanks everyone for the suggestions. second run: 1 cup groats (thanks for the term), 2 cups water, splash of olive oil, pinch of salt. cover, bring to boil, switch to lowest setting, let simmer. got a glass lid, so monitoring progress.

20 min - still water left. 30 min - still some water visible. 40 min - none visible, occasional buble pops through. turn off heat, leave covered for 10 mins. sadly, there’s some water at the bottom, was hoping everything will get absorbed.

third run will be one setting above lowest for the simmer part thus hopefully shortening it to 30 mins, and then leaving it covered for 15 minutes, hopefully that will do the trick.

possible. I tried it at one point with the -Z option, which should disable compression but no change, same result.

works. still would like to know what the issue is with adb.