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Re: Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes

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Post by subway » Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #66

subway wrote: post #21

Amazing little blackthrows too. Or so I've heard. You can usually find a rootable phone in Walmart for about $15.

Can you send me one? (to Australia). Or if you link one, I can probably use a shipping forwarder.

Check out Walmart.com (or most any big box store), search for Alcatel. You're likely going to find quite a few devices in the $15-25 range.

Re: Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes

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Post by bradknowles » Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 10:52 PM UTC

feelin_googley wrote: post #33

My company is working on pocket-sized routers/firewalls/DNS servers. These sit between the "smartphone" and the untrusted, e.g., public, wifi router, acting as a user-controlled gateway. The user makes a one-time change to the settings on their smartphone to use the user-controlled gateway. This enables blocking ads and other unwanted outgoing connections without having to be physically at home or work, i.e. in a loc…

Shut up and take my money!

;)

Re: Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes

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Post by voltagex_ » Sun, Aug 27, 2017, 4:21 AM UTC

subway wrote: post #71

voltagex_ wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you send me one? (to Australia). Or if you link one, I can probably use a shipping forwarder.

Check out Walmart.com (or most any big box store), search for Alcatel. You're likely going to find quite a few devices in the $15-25 range.

Ah right, there's a couple of those sold at the post office and supermarkets here - the brand names are changed though, so how do you know what's rootable?