"I thought you were throwing that away."

That night, Alex fell down the rabbit hole of . The J4+ (codenamed j4primelte ) was considered a low-end relic, but a small community of die-hards refused to let it die. He found it: LineageOS 20 .

Alex looked at the J4+. It had a good screen. A headphone jack. A battery he could technically replace. "No," he said. "I'm going to break it out."