Most of my old phones still boot but have cracked screen & either are unreadable and/or more frequently non-working touchscreens. Thankfully with Android I can

Most of my old phones still boot but have cracked screen & either are unreadable and/or more frequently non-working touchscreens. Thankfully with Android I can just plug in a mouse! On my Samsung phones I can plug in a full display + mouse. It's a bit of a risk leaving thr gate open like this, but occasionally I've also setup dying phones to auto switch to ADB, so when they do go, I can still access them. The main barrier I have is that some phones have bad usb micro ports. With that, I'm hosed. Thankfully haven't seen a single usb-c device with a bad port; loving it. Ideally we should be able to trust on-disk encryption on our phones. Alas with pin codes, there's not enough entropy to do a for real job of encrypting, but it'll ward off casual snooping. I'm honestly not sure when the changeover was where users ought to be able to expect this fundamental builtin protection.