Hook it up to your living room TV, and make it your entertainment station? With a good set up, you can stream on it, play retro games and emulation, miscellaneous media... I could see it being much more useful than a standard Roku / Fire / et cetera USB stick.

Install Linux and turn that into a server with bonus UPS

Replace the screen, maybe? And now you have an extra laptop.

You could sell it for way too much on ebay, those M1 Macbooks are still worth a fair bit. I recently tried to get a water damaged M1 Pro Macbook and people outbid me like crazy; went for 150€ in the end despite being almost certainly a total dud.

Even ones without a working display go for 170€, which is far more than I'd pay for a fully working non-workstation laptop from that time...

Edit: Just looked at the listing again and the water damaged M1 Pro went for 234€. According to the listing it sat around for 2 years after it stopped working from water damage. 234€.

You can connect to a TV and use as a browser or media center PC

omg that's so funny, I have a MacBook Pro with a broken screen.

I feel kind of bad but it was too expensive to replace the screen. I got an external screen. It works, but it made the laptop not portable, so I repaired my brother’s old Chromebook and installed Linux on it.

Having a second server might be a good opportunity to learn kubernetes

If you don't have a need, do not purchase.

If you have purchased without a need, consider returning or selling it.

A broken laptop can simply be used as a desktop with an external monitor.