Use an old android phone to selfhost ?

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• eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Termux has nginx, postgres, python and plenty of stuff compiled to ARM so I bet you can. You would have to be wary of non standard ports unless you have root access and make sure android does not kill or puts to sleep termux by adding exceptions to the app.

  I remember running a few low traffic Mastodon bots in a S3 Mini years ago and it was decent.

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• JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  google for the things you want to host and append “termux” to it, e.g.:

  • nextcloud on termux
  • piped on termux

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  • stown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks to your comment I gave termux another try and finally figured out what I was doing wrong (pgk updates never working). DO NOT install termux from the Play Store, use FDROID. If you use the play store version you have an old and outdated version with old and broken package repos.

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• sv1sjp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But if it does not getting any updates, it is a bit risky… Find a custom which gets security updates and then do whatever they say in other comments.

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• MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  thats a server baby

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• knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Until one week ago I was using an old Samsung S20 with good results. I moved to a mini PC as I wanted to host Immich server and I felt it was too much for the phone (it might not be the case though…) A quick extract from an old post of mine on what I was running: lemmy.world/comment/354199 Software: Termux (android app) SSH (OpenSSH in Termux) Rclone (in Termux) Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr (in proot-distro) Transmission (in proot-distro) Kavitha (in proot-distro) Podgrab (in proot-distro) Ombi (in proot-distro) ntfy (in proot-distro) Filebrowser (in proot-distro) Vaultwarden (in proot-distro) Homer with lighttpd (in proot-distro)

  TLDR: Go for it! Use Termux with proot-distro to avoid headaches

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  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FTFY (formatting)

    Until one week ago I was using an old Samsung S20 with good results. I moved to a mini PC as I wanted to host Immich server and I felt it was too much for the phone (it might not be the case though…)

    A quick extract from an old post of mine on what I was running:
    lemmy.world/comment/354199

    Software:

    • Termux (android app)
    • SSH (OpenSSH in Termux)
    • Rclone (in Termux)
    • Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr (in proot-distro)
    • Transmission (in proot-distro)
    • Kavitha (in proot-distro)
    • Podgrab (in proot-distro)
    • Ombi (in proot-distro)
    • ntfy (in proot-distro)
    • Filebrowser (in proot-distro)
    • Vaultwarden (in proot-distro)
    • Homer with lighttpd (in proot-distro)

    TLDR: Go for it! Use Termux with proot-distro to avoid headaches

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    • knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks a lot! Much better :)

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• aesir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If postmarket os works on that device maybe you can go full Linux (alpine), there will be no systemd which might be a problem and I am not even sure about docker compatibility. You can look it up though.

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  • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Postmarketos is a great project, but I couldn’t get it to boot on my device.

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  • HarriPotero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ubuntu touch supports it decently

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• PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tried to host a pihole with distrobix some time ago, eventually it just stopped responding sadly. I want a debian server that I can ssh into, it’s the bare minimum to host stuff IMO. Tmux is great, but I use it as a client, not a server.

  Best case would be to trash the whole android os and somehow get a real Linux distro running headless (I know android is technically Linux, but it does not count)

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  • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    isnt the supported kernel a critical question for most android phones?

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    • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not Sure. But it doesn’t mean anything when is I can’t get a proper distro to boot.

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• emhl@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reading this post on my mi A3 right now :D

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
  SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
  nginx	Popular HTTP server

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• backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Should work, tho I doubt it’s much more performant than a pi, so your ideas might be too heavy for it.

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• chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can anyone chime in about the safety of this from a battery standpoint? If it’s going to function that way it’ll probably have to be plugged in all the time, and that device’s battery is not removable.

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