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All my old phones used to become BOINC nodes doing WorldCommunityGrid or seti@home, at least until we got to the point where you couldn't run the phone without a battery anymore. Came home to one too many spicy pillow'd phones even keeping them in a cool area with a rigged up fan blowing on them.
Just thermal paste to the battery hah
so once you have a web server on the phone how are you able to make it available publicly on the internet? don't ISPs detect these and ban? are you using wireguard or something like that? ive been looking to build and serve my own servers and i have been considering to use old android phones to outright racks but the part I am still struggling to figure out is how to serve it publicly without ISP catching on as they…
ISPs don't care, actually. They care about operational problems, but you serving a constant stream of web traffic is probably not going to matter to them; web traffic for even a pretty successful blog is going to be a tiny volume compared to you streaming 4k movies from Netflix. ISPs will have rules (maximum data volume per month) and restrictions (ISP equipment auto-drops all sending/receiving packets on port 25, 80…
Simple root, with a custom degoogled rom, and termux is all you need.
For some reason, I never buy phones that work with postmarketOS :( And I find phone naming confusing, it's difficult to find a used one locally to play with. Is it a Moto Play 2018 or a Play 2020? Trying to get that information from someone on Facebook marketplace is like pulling teeth.
If you can think about how deep into technicalities the most average person you know gets, then you can also understand that ~half of everyone is even less technical than that.
There's nothing wrong with this. That's just the way that it is. (We can accept this or be frustrated. Acceptance is more useful.)
As a workaround, I find that searching by part number provides a good filter.
Maybe I want a very particular Moto G Power to use for whatever. I don't search for any permutation of "Motorola G Power" at all, because that description doesn't help me.
Instead, I just find the part number (maybe something like "XT2041-7") and search for that instead.
This excludes a lot of listings straight away, and that's fine: I don't want to stumble through listings from people who don't know what they have. I only want to buy what I want to buy, and what I want is an XT2041-7.
Nothing beats my toaster serving my webpages.
All my old phones used to become BOINC nodes doing WorldCommunityGrid or seti@home, at least until we got to the point where you couldn't run the phone without a battery anymore. Came home to one too many spicy pillow'd phones even keeping them in a cool area with a rigged up fan blowing on them.
Interesting, I wonder if using a regular sff pc fan might work if you don't need the touchscreen. Just thermal paste to the battery hah
In order to prevent issues this time around I've preemptively removed the back of the phone, and the camera modules so I can have a nice flat phone. Then I bought a heatsink nearly the same size as the phone itself. I've got thermal pads on the SoC which sits lower than the battery and the heatsink itself had thermal adhesive on it pre-applied which is sticking to the battery/phone frame holding it to the phone. No more phone overheating worries and if the battery goes pillowy it should just pop the heatsink up instead of warping the whole phone.
The battery will swell and explode if you run 24x7 on a phone.
The thing that holds me back from this is always the battery. I want to have my battery removed so that it doesn't eventually become a time bomb, but it's a pain on modern phones and I'm not even sure if they boot without. The mobile hardware reuse space can suck for hobbyists.
Most phones can have battery removed somewhat destructively, but without affecting the rest of the phone. Generally, as long as you keep the phone plugged in, the battery should be safe virtually indefinitely - the battery management on board will keep it in a state where its a constant charge which means the chemistry will be stable.
Would you say this is a chemistry/QA problem? Have there been advances in battery / controller technology that achieves the above?