usbc solved a lot of the connector issues, so long as you can get a hub to play nice with Linux drivers.
Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!
solrize@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Um no, phones are terrible for that. My old phone in particular is a PITA to even keep powered, because of its flaky micro USB connector. Then we get to the lack of Ethernet, the difficulty of remote reboot, and the Android OS even with termux. It’s .much better to scrounge an old PC or raspy pi or the like.
Cooper8@feddit.online 5 hours ago
solrize@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Well my old phone is micro USB for now. Someday my new phone will become an old phone and I can revisit the scheme. It has USB-C.
F04118F@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Old PCs are plenty powerful and compatible with everything, but if energy consumption is a major concern, an old phone can work too.
You are 100% right that Android is a very weird Linux and Termux is limited.
PostmarketOS is a project that enables installation of a full upstream Linux onto old phones. Then you can run whatever (ARM-supporting) distro you like on it, without weird kernel limitations.