notswiley

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   by notswiley 9y ago

   Android kills stuff when it feels like it wants more room to cache apps in ram. The background stuff like the media indexer takes CPU time and generates heat (these are pretty easy to overheat when used like this.) I think some of the older
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   by notswiley 9y ago

   I don't know about you, but my old phones struggle with room tempurature air, I'd hate to see how they do in an attic. That with the battery (most can't run without one because of spikes in the current draw) is a bit of a f
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   by notswiley 9y ago

   A lot of them can be used just fine as a server with a fairly open OS. It's usually the GPU/camera/radios etc. that need special stuff, but things like USB (for networking) and flash work fine. It's not even that hard to
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   by notswiley 9y ago

   If you plug them into a Linux machine and turn on tethering they will show up as the ethernet interface usbx or so. You can then use dhclient to get an address (although you'll want to make sure it doesn't change your default gate