A barely working Android phone screen didn't stop me from building a functional home server

A phone's display is the only way to interact with it, and when it fails, the device becomes unusable. I'm sure you have a couple of Android smartphones in your drawer with unresponsive displays. The primary reason they're collecting dust in a drawer is that it's impossible to do anything with them. One of my mum's old Android smartphones, a Samsung device that she used solely for watching YouTube videos and playing music, suffered massive screen damage.