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Could just plug it in. The main detractors from making this uneconomical in the US is the lack of consumer infrastructure for upload.
by mtkhaos 4y ago
Could just plug it in. The main detractors from making this uneconomical in the US is the lack of consumer infrastructure for upload.
- crazygringo 4y agoIf you had to keep it plugged in, then it wouldn't be very mobile, would it?
- kornhole 4y agoI think we are talking about repurposing a small computer previously used as a mobile handset into a server. This is already possible and done with Android and Linux handsets. It is just not as straightforward as using a RPI with a distribution such as Yunohost.org. It's scalability is also very limited, but it kind of fits the low power low cost factors of the RPI.
- crazygringo 4y agoNo, nobody was talking about that. The context was clearly one's personal Android phone (in the article), and "your smartphone" in the original comment (not "an extra/old"). The one you carry with you all the time. The article even admitted you'd have to "carry an extra battery".
- stale2002 4y agoOk, but yes it would still be cool if any of these devices, whatever you want to call them, could be plugged in somewhere and act as a server. > (not "an extra/old"). So then you concede completely, that anyone talking about these devices, would indeed be correct to say that it is cool to turn these devices into servers. Great, you agree that there is a usecases for this.
- kornhole 4y agoOK. There are P2P mobile based social media services such as https://www.manyver.se/ https://www.manyver.se/ already running. Although every node is serving/getting messages, I am not sure they can be called servers.
- rambambram 4y agoNo, I - as the OP - said also "pocket computer" very explicitly. If a 'personal mobile server' would become reality, it's not going to be a smartphone + something else on top.
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- janalsncm 4y agoIs it possible with old iPhones? I have an old one just laying around doing nothing.