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Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server (crackoverflow.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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guide for installing Docker on a phone https://crackoverflow.com/docs/system_administration/containerization/install-docker-natively-on-android-phone-and-use-it-as-a-home-server/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe with a docking station that gives USB3 breakouts you could hook up something like an Icy Box stuffed with hard drives and have a little file server:

(Not too sure about the bandwidth though, just an idea lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that could be cute, I find for a lot of use cases bandwidth isn't that big of a deal in practice. For example, if you just want to stream media then you can load it up on the drive up front.