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My personal advice would be to sell it (because it'll make someone else happy) and buy a better second-hand phone with the money, on which you're sure you can setup a free system. Good luck anyway!
one gave it to me cause the screen is broken on top , but its working normally , so selling it will not be that easy. but thx ;) i agree best solution here is just to change the hardware.
Then it's a tough situation. Either you can repair the screen yourself, but that may cost a little money/time, or you could just consider this entire device to be compromised and use it as a dumb phone, or use it as a computing platform completely disconnected from your personal identifiers (only run on mobile data, never wifi, and don't use phone/calls).
I didn't mean to sound condescending in my previous message, i've also been stuck in the past with shady/broken hardware and "buying new hardware" is not always possible because of $$$$, and in any case is not a good solution in terms of pollution. Wish you the best :)
thx :) yeah shitty situation , that's happening so many times ...im not planing to repair , because a broken screen is not harmless to me but the whole thing scares me because of xiaomi and android reputation ... but a dumb phone is always good to have :) when $$ will come in i'll think about buyin the right hardware to take care of my digital life , and before this 'ill get a shitty nonsmartphone and maybe see where i can get with LOS , some said this could work well if i take my time doin it right :)