I have a rooted redmi note 11 pro 4g with unofficial lineageos installed. It is my personal device. But I barely use it. If someone calls I pick up, that’s about it. The phone is completely clean too, no trace of whatsapp or anything like that. The most bloated app on the phone is brave. Like I said, squeaky clean. Now I want to turn this into a machine using plain termux or chroot to run piefed, gotosocial and stuff, and host my blog page, but I am undecided. Since it’s rooted, I thought I could set up something that starts charging at 45% and cuts off at 75%. What do you think I should do?
The main question is in the title. If you run a server on your own device, what do you host on it?
i used to use my old phones as security cameras feeding into the motion app and set them up to buffer recordings if they lost contact. fwiw
Yes. Works fine. PostmarketOS, though, not Lineage. It runs an offsite monitoring system for the rest of my selfhosted stuff - Prometheus, Grafana, stuff.
Could you do something similar as this for your battery?
Newer phones don’t open as easy.
No, I was fortunate enough to pick up a bunch of decommissioned Celeron mini PCs from work. I run a NAS with media server on one, pi-hole on another, and a test server on a third. I meant to make things accessible from outside with VPN, but was too lazy.
Try tailscale, it is free and makes the whole process super easy.
I don’t see why you couldn’t use a phone as a server as long as the battery doesn’t cause problems.
I’ve never done it but I have heard of people using their old phones as a NAS (network attached storage). The closest I’ve ever done was to connect two of my android devices together via Bluetooth and use that to transfer files between the two devices. It’s slow but it works.
i used to host some simple website and sftp/webdav fileshare a long time ago. it works. its just a computer
I tried hosting podcasts but I didn’t make it.
I wouldn’t trust an old battery, nope
(I rather use free tiers of paas providers or rent a vps that anyway is as cheap as electricity. The issue there is going to be storage, then you need a homelab or nas and setup tunnels for apps like nextcloud. That’s what I am doing.)
