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Apart from the 'cool' factor, what could possibly be good about running a webserver on a device with very brittle battery life as it is now? That being said, w
by wingerlang 11y ago
Apart from the 'cool' factor, what could possibly be good about running a webserver on a device with very brittle battery life as it is now?
That being said, what stops you from running a server on your phone today?
- ck2 11y agoWell the battery would become the UPS of the device, it would instead run off wall power normally. I already have a small phone farm like that for testing stuff, just not actual hosting. Never tried to build a whole linux hosting environment on a phone though, not enough motivation because they haven't been powerful enough yet.
- l-p 11y agoNothing. I've been using my phone as a backup git remote for a few years: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.antoniy.gidder.beta https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.antoniy.gi...
- monk_e_boy 11y agoWhen you're distributing something that the government doesn't want you to distribute. Could be a super cool mesh network thingy, (wasn't Diaspora supposed to do this?) bitcoin?
- eru 11y ago> When you're distributing something that the government doesn't want you to distribute. Mobile phones (and their networks) are under heavy surveillance.
- monk_e_boy 11y agohttps and ssh?
- ikeboy 11y agoYou can run a hidden service off your phone using orbot.
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- tingol 11y agoWhy would you run a server on a battery? It would be plugged in ofcourse. The purpose would be a low tdp server more powerful than a raspberry pi and a touchscreen included.