any way to turn off authentication on pinephone?

[quixote]

I'm using it purely as a phone and reader, and there's nothing on the pinephone of any interest to anyone. The authentication step is a bother but would be okay if it only happened on reboot. But it's every single time after the screen blanks, which is a *giant* bother. (More so for me than some people because I have very dry skin, and everything on a touchscreen takes multiple tries for me.)

Oh, I do have the screen set to never blank while I'm using it, but I doubt that's a good idea when it's knocking around in my pocket.

Is there any way to bypass authentication entirely? I'm happy to edit files in /etc or wherever, but will need step-by-step instructions. Bad things happen when I try to improvise as root .