Haha, yeah… I ended up finding a cheap used OnePlus 5T in good shape and swapped the screens. There is Android 14 with LineageOS and other custom roms available, so I can keep the phone “up-to-date” and running for a while.
I still keep an eye on the phone market and more or less following the Asus drama with GamersNexus and the threads on XDA.
I haven’t upgraded to Android 14 yet. It’s painful to do backups and restores with 128GB storage and USB 2.0 but I will get there soon.
Thank you for this, nice job! I’m probably not the target audience (yet), as I mostly use the bookmark toolbar or just doomscrolling for news, but you know, life changes from time to time. If I won’t have time to doomscroll anymore, it’s good to know that an open-source all-in-one-place aggregator is out there. The one-time payment is also a good concept. Personally, I would pay for it when I start using it.
Thank you everyone and thank you for the links! Based on all info, I decided to wait for Asus’s statement until the end of April. I hope my current phone will survive until then. In case of no good news, I will try to find a OnePlus Nord CE2 somewhere, or may go with a good used one. If that doesn’t work out either, then maybe an Xperia. Or Nothing 2. Or Pixel… We’ll see.
A Veritasium video about the topic, if someone is actually interested: https://youtu.be/9cNmUNHSBac