Selfhosted

I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.

With chargie you could keep the battery hovering around 50%

That website was the first thing I thought about when I saw the post. Great content too!

Oh neat! Yeah ill do it when I get a chance.

EDIT: Looks like quite a few of those sites are defunct.

Im not sure I want to host more on the phone (yet?). Its a nice novelty but I have other self hosted platforms that are much more robust. This is more of a "can I do it" kind of project. Your seeing my free time right now.

Thanks for the comment!

Depending on the dongle, that would increase power consumption. I think that is difficult in the current state, seeing that there is not much power to spare at the moment.

Oh yeah that would 100% speed it up. Its about 200/300 ms delay on wifi.

Seconded.

Especially if it could be done on a phone with a non functioning screen.

Thanks! Its a very simple setup.

I think like 5% at max? Apache2 + straight HTML is very low on cpu memory. Its probably overkill honestly.

Its auto set yp go to 80% petminantly as the highest charge. And android itself takes care of the heavy lifting when it comes to battery optimization.

I'd dare say the easier method, from memory the p6 should have a charge limit in the stock firmware.

I've not an old Samsung s10+ kicking around with corrupted firmware, should really take a look at it and see if it can be up and running again. Not that I need more cores, ram, cameras or any additions to my equipment but just because.

It fassinates me that consumer hardware, and low power at that goes wasted so often. So many small form factor devices such as phones, with built in ups aren't being leveraged. But I guess that comes down to proprietary binary blobs and developer work on a per device basis.

I might have to investigate what platforms mobile nixos supports and see if it's cheap enough to dabble with.

Yes send it back to Google and get 100USD for it

Is there a specific reason you strictly need static ipv6?

If you're using SLAAC for auto IP assignment, then the resulting EUI-64-based address would be essentially static, based on the premise that your MAC address and local subnet prefix don't change. Privacy extensions night get in the way, as well as Android's randomized MAC feature, but those are adjustable.

Which Linux distro would work on a phone? I have an old zenfone 8 lying around.

Will do! I still need to do an actual writeup. Maybe even host it on the site.