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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
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Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#12>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually.
I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#13I see your fruitPhone 8 and raise my Motorola MB525 'Defy', Motorola MB526 'Defy+' and Samsung J3 which are in use as Wifi-enabled trailer camera. The phones provide a Wifi hotspot through which the camera's images are accessed. Hook up the trailer, connect to the Wifi network and voila, you can see what's happening in the trailer behind you. The oldest device in this list is from 2010, all of them run either Cyanoge…
That’s pretty impressive. I love when people give old devices a new life and save them from being eWaste. True to the hacker spirit.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#14HomePods perform real-time vision processing on multiple camera streams for HomeKit. However, the primary quality challenge lies in the video quality of HomeKit-enabled doorbell cameras that can consistently stream to Wi-Fi. For instance, my doorbell operates on 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, resulting in highly compressed video streams. This compression likely impacts the results.
The range of HomeKit-enabled doorbells and cameras is disappointing to begin with and even worse when removing options that require a proprietary adapter box and/or subscription. The best option at the moment seems to be a Ubiquiti setup that integrates into HomeKit by way of Homebridge or other similar solutions rather than anything that supports HomeKit specifically.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#15In my browser the ads cover the actual content. User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
I found the page quite clean (with cloudflareinsights.com, googlesyndication.com, and googletagmanager.com blocked of course).
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#16I wonder if someone will make a LLM farm from older (probably not too old) iPhones using Apple's new foundation models. I know they won't hold a candle to SOTA models, they are much smaller for one, but when they announced API access that's the first thing I thought of, a sort of "folding @ home" but routing queries to a phone and spitting back the results.
It's silly and probably makes no sense at all based on how weak the model will probably be but it's a fun thing to think about.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#17This reminded me of the guy that built a meme database using iPhone's OCR as well [1].
I find incredible the idea of giving these devices another life. I wonder how hard is to host a sort-of vps on an abandoned android phone these days... I guess as long as you can put ethernet + docker you'd have a very capable device.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#18Wonderful story! We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life. https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/
>We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.
I'm not sure I follow. It feels exceedingly hard to find new uses for old iPads without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Has that changed?
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#19I love projects like this, doing things because you can. Especially low power, off-grid projects. However I did not love the writing style of this article. Lots of repetition. Asking questions to stress a funny point. Lots of repetition. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, even though I've succeeded at it. The author is cool, what they did is just as cool.
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Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#20I love projects like this, doing things because you can. Especially low power, off-grid projects. However I did not love the writing style of this article. Lots of repetition. Asking questions to stress a funny point. Lots of repetition. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, even though I've succeeded at it. The author is cool, what they did is just as cool.
It's AI slop. In fact, most (if not all) of this blog's recent posts are AI slop.