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Posted by seg6 11 hours ago

My server is a phone now(seg6.space)
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agnishom 9 hours ago|
Shouldn't it be "My phone is a server now"?
seg6 7 hours ago||
I meant it from the server’s perspective: VPS before, phone now. The article clears up any ambiguity pretty quickly.
an0malous 8 hours ago|||
but this way is provocative, it gets the people going
Waterluvian 9 hours ago||
“My daily driver is a clown car now.”
jqbd 2 hours ago||
If you have a clown car already, know how it works, and it's magically cheaper to drive than regular cars and car prices are high then I don't see the issue with this.
jona-f 4 hours ago||
I think you are doing much better with an optiplex 3050 micro and libreboot. Android with it's locked down bootloader and outdated kernels is a dead platform. You are fighting Google's control at every step. Sad, the US used to be all about freedom...
curtisblaine 1 hour ago||
Sigh, I expected some crazy project like hooking a big Xeon rack to batteries, running Graphite or Android on it and sticking it in a backpack to use as a primary phone. That would have been glorious.

Instead, I got the same old post of someone serving web pages from a mobile phone :(

hackernud3s 9 hours ago||
I've never heard of Surf but I can run 10x camoufox instances on a $8 VPS no problem. I highly recommend it.
seg6 7 hours ago||
The main difference is that Camoufox doesn't have an iOS 6 client. Surf is built around that client experience: omnibox, tabs, history, uploads/downloads, touch input, and audio/video streaming targeting 60fps. So Camoufox is great for running browser instances on a VPS, but it doesn't really replace what Surf is doing for an old iPad.
lucb1e 8 hours ago||
Not having heard of that, either, I looked it up:

> An open source anti-detect browser built for AI agents.

Sounds legit, circumventing the locks people are trying to add to their properties in an attempt to keep costs down and the service available for people that are actually trying to use the service rather than bots roaming around. Really happy for you that you managed to run ten of those. Not a nuisance at all.

hackernud3s 8 hours ago||
It's in the same category as Surf, which is the pain point in the article. It's relevant.
lucb1e 6 hours ago||
That would be a fair point, but I don't see that in the source. The article's first mention of Surf is a link to a previous article <https://seg6.space/posts/resurrecting-ipad-mini/> where the motivation is mentioned:

> I wanted to turn [the old tablet] into a smooth, distraction free reading device, so I [got root and] transferred a few books with iFile and had exactly what I wanted [...] until the reading workflow left the book. \n\n Reading is not really offline anymore. Finding articles, checking references, downloading PDFs, opening links, and asking an LLM about something confusing all happen on the web. [...] [The ancient Safari engine can't provide] JavaScript, CSS, media, and browser APIs expected by current websites [and Apple didn't allow third-party engines.] [...] Since I was on vacation, this also felt like the perfect pet project to hand to an LLM and see how far it could get. Out of that experiment, Surf was born.

The point seems to have been getting iOS 6 to run a modern browser, which was experimentally built with an LLM, not so much have LLMs roam and masquerade themselves on the web via it

ekianjo 8 hours ago||
keeping phones connected to power 24/7 is a fire hazard
thenthenthen 4 hours ago||
Dunno, i ran my blog for two years from my old iphone 4. It was fine.
pelasaco 49 minutes ago|||
you should drop the battery.. see this project https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform...
_def 7 hours ago|||
Doesn't this depend on the kind of phone and battery?
DANmode 5 hours ago||
Keeping fans connected to power 24/7 is a fire hazard, too.

Running electricity through wood, arguably insane.

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