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i have two oneplus 6 phones right now, and two more that are broken. One working one has android, the other will get lineageos. when lineage is stable might migrate the android one to nixos. Nixos is pretty obscure but it helps to have people banging on distros and filing bugs.
How did they break?
I bought one used and it had a messed up USB port, which became unusable over time. The other got bricked after a LineageOS update. Bootloader inaccessible. I tried taking it apart to get the usb port out of it for the other phone but botched the job, which is incredibly delicate considering the back of the phone is glass. Turns out you can access the bootloader if you wait until the battery goes completely to zero. So I could probably get that phone going again if I don't care that it doesn't have a back anymore.