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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non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWhat is your definition of “proper”, in this context?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
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.
illusionist@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Probably anything else. A pi is a good idea.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’d just pickup a 6-8th gen Intel workstation
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Something actually capable of doing this well? Even a raspberry pi would be better suited.
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.