Maybe motorola? I don't know about chinese spying, and my g31 has a headphone jack, micro sd card slot and a pretty large battery (and is pretty affordable).
Love my G31 as a daily driver and Music player. Does all it needs to, and for a very reasonable price. Also, has a headphone jack and an SD card slot :)
Various Building code violations, possession of dangerous chemicals, Code violations concerning nuclear reactors, unauthorized mining.
Possibly poaching wildlife.
Minecraft: All The Mods 9. I'm not very far into it yet, so there's probably a lot of stuff coming on top of that soon.
I'm going to say that today, even on lower-end phones, the screen, processor and camera are all pretty decent.
I have a Motorola G31, which cost about 200€ one year ago, when I got it.
It has a Micro SD Card Slot and a headphone jack.
The screen is plenty good (1440p,60hz) (why would you need 120hz or 4k on a phone)
And the camera is also quite nice. It has no fancy features, but it takes pictures and that's all I need.
From my perspective, flagship phones are impractical and overpriced to say the least.
I think you are right. There are many people in their 40s who grew up with online games, my father included :). Although I am still fairly certain that online games weren't as prevalent back then as they are today, thus many parents don't quite grasp the concept.
EDIT: I would like to add that even people who didn't play online games, such as my mother, still played on the atari, for example, and know the concept of "unpauseable" games.
So I think that it mostly comes down to demographic. In my group of school friends (a few years ago) some parents were in the know and others weren't.
Although that is true, they might not be as familiar with the concept of online multiplayer games, which rose in popularity much later. The odds of someone's parents having played, for example, Quake or Unreal Tournament in their childhoods are considerably lower.
I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on 2 friend's pcs.
One of them has moved to an iMac now (apple fanboy, was going to do that anyway, no convincing possible) though he did like linux more than windows.
The other dual-booted for a while and finally "booted" windows off of his pc last month. He's pretty happy with it, too.