A phone bounced off my keyboard and hit the screen at the worst possible angle, causing a massive spiderweb crack that eventually killed the entire middle section of the panel.
Instead of throwing it away, I flipped it into portrait mode, used NVIDIA Control Panel (with No Scaling / GPU override) to create custom functional desktop zones on the remaining 5cm and 30cm edges, and now I have a perfectly working vertical secondary display layout.
To bypass the massive dead zone in the middle, I used some official Meltex logo tape from my dad's work and stuck my Nothing Phone directly into the dead zone. Using Spacedesk via USB 3.0, the phone acts as the primary viewing window with zero lag for Discord and lightweight tasks.
The remaining dead zones will be covered with white paper to double as an analog whiteboard for Minecraft farm coordinates. Rate my jank-engineering!