Neat, I have been wondering if its possible to use the usb of a phone with suitable adapters to run keyboards, mice and ethernet, for the same end goal. This shows that its indeed possible. I think I should try going back to that idea again.

Anyone else find it kinda funny to have a "fully offgrid" website? That's an oxymoron, right? How can it be off grid if it's literally connected to the grid?

I understand they're using grid to mean electrical grid, but still funny.

Termux is great but every time I used i ran into issue because packages didn’t behave properly, needed some weird workaround to even install, some package required didn’t exist at all (it’s up to termux developer to port Linux package to termux).

I would be extremely cautious about running a website over something running in termux, you never know when it’s going to break.

One of the solution, without root, was to run a completely emulated Linux distribution through termux and then install packages on that distribution. Things would work just as fine as on a regular server albeit the loss on performance and increased energy expenditure, which is something the author seems to care about.

Android is great in the way you can do many things with it but it always sucks hard compared to what a real device ,not artificially locked down by Google, can do.

This is why I am such a big fan of the Micro PC's by HP, Dell etc

Very efficient but enough grunt to do multiple things at once and have great hardware and driver support.

Running a blog on a pixel is next level efficient

Does anyone know if this is possible with an iPhone 6s?

I don't quite get how he's actually serving the page. Does `hugo` contain a webserver, I thought it's a static site generator

Title needs "(2024)". It's been over a year and whether the blog is still running on a recycled Pixel 5 is unclear.

Pixel 5 does not support USB-to-Ethernet adapters

Are there any phones that do support such adapters

I currently use an old phone as a battery for a RPi

Not sure how reliable an old android phone is. You achieve the same thing with an old bad but much better reliability.

Repurposed, not recycled.

(I did something similar for Android tablets, repurposing them into an automated, digital photo frame).