Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server

Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by cdev_gl on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:34PM (#31843286)

I don't know about brave, but the funniest thing I've done with my phone and keyboard is access an amazon workspace to run adobe InDesign for magazine layout while in my tent— sitting in a sleeping bag, a cold rain pattering against the "roof", with my back resting against my backpack and my phone angled nicely in my lap, using the keyboard's attached touchpad to carefully move and assign articles, tweak colors, and do the final bits needed for printing.

There was definitely some squinting at the screen involved, heh.

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by tambourine_man on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:22PM (#31844482)

I’d love to know more about that. Isn’t running Adobe CC on AWS prohibitively expensive? You need a decent video card and at the very least 8GB of RAM.

Couldn’t you buy a laptop with what they’d charge you for a day of work? A quick simulation here is showing me US$ 140/h for a 4 core 16GB of Ram machine, no mention of video card.

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by mrlemke on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:18AM (#31845408)

You can easily stow a portable solar panel in a hiking bag that can charge your phone and the other accessories. A laptop would have a harder time getting charged, even if it was a Chromebook. Portable battery packs intended for phones would also be easy to stow. Not only do they fit more compactly, but they are light on your weight budget and not as fragile as lightweight laptops.

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by tambourine_man on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:36AM (#31849694)

Sure, but I’m talking about price. AWS Workspace seems crazy expensive, to the point of being unusable almost.

I love the digital nomad lifestyle, but at that price it’s more of a gimmick than a real choice

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by bigiain on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:54AM (#31846244)

A g3s.xlarge running Windows is just under a dollar an hour - 4 cores, 30GB ram, 8GB video ram on Nvidia GPUs.

$140 gets you a t3.xlarge 4 core 16gb ram instance (on linux) for a whole month.

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by tambourine_man on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:32AM (#31849625)

But that’s not Amazon Workspace he mentioned. That’s just EC2.

Check out the hourly price of Workspace:

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?pg=workspaces&sec...

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by cdev_gl on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:01PM (#31980036)

Sorry this comes a bit late, but the answer is you don't really need a performance machine for doing layout. Since Adobe's apps were originally built 30 years ago, the minimum requirements remain quite low. Moving images around a page can handle quite a bit of lag. You don't even need a rented machine with a quality GPU.

I pay for this workspace: $9.75/month-Hourly-Windows licensed-Performance-2vCPU,8GB Memory,80GB Root,50GB User

Since I'm only doing layout on an as-needed basis while hiking, rather than doing it full time, I tend to spend around $45 or less a month.

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