Comment on Can I self-host on old iPhones?

illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sell them? They worth peanut

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sell them and buy peanut.

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    • alt_xa_23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      20 dollars can buy many peanuts

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      • eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Explain!

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  • illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The phones are probably still working. New battery and touchscreen and someone will be happy with it.

    To the normal user it is e waste because it’s an old apple phone. It doesn’t matter how much you get. Just get rid of it so that someone can use it or strip it apart for its parts.

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is your definition of “proper”, in this context?

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Something actually capable of doing this well? Even a raspberry pi would be better suited.

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    • litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A Nintendo Wii would also work, as exemplified by this blog running on a NetBSD Wii.

      But in all seriousness, the original comment has a point: using a mobile phone as a server is possible but also wastes a lot of the included hardware, like the cellular baseband, the touchscreen, and the voice and Bluetooth capabilities. Selling the phones and using the proceeds to purchase a used NUC or an SFF PC would give you more avenues to expand, in addition to just being plain easier to set up, since it would have USB ports, to name a few luxuries.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are loads of cheap Chinese mini-PCs based on Intel N95, N100 or N150, and they’d make the job easier than a phone or a Raspberry Pi. Spend a little more and you can get some pretty cheap AMD Ryzen-based models too.

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think that’s the point. It can be fun to use something like an old Phone to use it as a homeserver or the like. It’s a pet project and not about efficiency or being really useful.

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  • illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably anything else. A pi is a good idea.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d just pickup a 6-8th gen Intel workstation

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