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Do You Use Your Phone As A Server?

I have a rooted redmi note 11 pro 4g with unofficial lineageos installed. It is my personal device. But I barely use it. If someone calls I pick up, that’s about it. The phone is completely clean too, no trace of whatsapp or anything like that. The most bloated app on the phone is brave. Like I said, squeaky clean. Now I want to turn this into a machine using plain termux or chroot to run piefed, gotosocial and stuff, and host my blog page, but I am undecided. Since it’s rooted, I thought I could set up something that starts charging at 45% and cuts off at 75%. What do you think I should do?

The main question is in the title. If you run a server on your own device, what do you host on it?

Replying to @⁨ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

I don’t see why you couldn’t use a phone as a server as long as the battery doesn’t cause problems.

I’ve never done it but I have heard of people using their old phones as a NAS (network attached storage). The closest I’ve ever done was to connect two of my android devices together via Bluetooth and use that to transfer files between the two devices. It’s slow but it works.

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨15⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨18:47⁩⁩