I have an old spare phone, what interesting things can I do with it?

Hello, I have an old phone and I was wondering if there are any useful things I can do with it
My daily driver is a Samsung galaxy A5 (2017)
And the spare phone is a Sony Xperia Z2 (2014) with an (unfixable) broken SIM card tray.

I would also say I'm a quite experienced power user

Thank you :)...

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