One of the big things it makes easier is charging, no longer forgetting to charge my mp3 player, having batteries ready for my game boy and syncing my PDA.
Also (especially here in The Netherlands) having your phone with almost completely negates having to have your wallet with, since every store (including small ones, popup carts and charity collectors) has card payment available using your phone. Soon even your ID-Card is gonna be digital in an app according to some Europe rulings.
The distraction is real though, especially the addiction. But I've got no solution for that.
In case of Raspbian, you can create a
wpa_supplicant.conf
in the boot partition with:and a empty
ssh
file.For the user config, since bullseye you need to make an account on first boot, that can be done with a
userconf
file, but it's a bit more involved. You can see how to do it at the end of This blog post