Repurposing Discarded Smartphones for Cloud Microservices to Minimize Carbon

Posted by nemoniac on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:16PM
from the dl.acm.org dept.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710

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Re:Repurposing Discarded Smartphones for Cloud Microservices... by transfire on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:24PM (#34698928)

I have a handful of old phones I’d be happy to repurpose if there were an easy way to do it.

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Re:Repurposing Discarded Smartphones for Cloud Microservices... by MathMonkeyMan on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:14AM (#34705492)

On Android there's Ubuntu Touch if you have a supported rooted phone. You still never get the full flexibility of a Linux (still Android running proprietary drivers under the hood), but it's nice to ssh in and do whatever.

Easier still is UserLAnd. Don't even need root. Works pretty well. http://www.davidgoffredo.com/phone-server

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Re:Repurposing Discarded Smartphones for Cloud Microservices... by bigape911 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:39PM (#34702260)

You mean the locked devices that you can't install Linux on?

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Re:Repurposing Discarded Smartphones for Cloud Microservices... by noisycarlos on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:56AM (#34705024)

I guess you can on the Android ones

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