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Yeah ‘old phones’ are pretty capable devices. I’ve wondered for a while if they could be used as an extension to your laptop like the old 80s PCs where you wou
by firasd 2mo ago
Yeah ‘old phones’ are pretty capable devices.
I’ve wondered for a while if they could be used as an extension to your laptop like the old 80s PCs where you would plug in hardware.
So ‘make it a server’ is the obvious way I guess, and then you could do things like render webpages on there and then stream them as images to your actual computer (like the now shutdown Mighty app), or run ffmpeg on there to convert a video, etc
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoA couple of old phones and a gaming laptop with a broken screen makes a beast of a cluster
- sejje 2mo agoI've been saving phones in my drawer for years, waiting to combine them to form a "supercomputer". Any day now!
- rtpg 2mo agoThe thing I've heard with people who do this "at scale" is to expect the phones to burn out. They're made for pretty bursty activity so if you try to do too much on em continuously they start acting weird real quick
- farfatched 2mo agoWhat does "burn out" mean? Doesn't the CPU throttle if the phone gets too hot? Or maybe some parts like the eMMC aren't spec'd for things like constant logging?
- rtpg 2mo agolike legit CPUs etc start failing. There's throttling but ultimately even that.... things might have gotten better though, I last had convos with people who did this maybe 6 years ago at this point.