I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting

[cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml]

I run CalyxOS on FP4, and I like it. It also has FP5 support. As far as I know, mobile Linux distros like postmarketOS work on (at least) FP4, but key phone functionality is lacking. There's a functionality matrix on their wiki.

[mystik@lemmy.world]

I also use syncthing. And it works pretty well. There is some turmoil with the android version in light of changes so the underlying sdk. And I am not sure there is an iOS syncthing that would work as well. I actually use it primarily to sync my keepass databases, and before Immich, my photos.

The photo management Immich brings makes it a nice alternative for that use case, but either way I need to have one or more servers elsewhere managing storage so I can get things off of my phone into a system I can control.

[tabular@lemmy.world]

I came from a ~10 year old phone so FF5 was a big upgrade. Battery lasts the work day (may go from 80% to ~50% or ~30% mostly playing bluetooth audio for like 4 hours on and off). Fairphone uses some industrial chip instead of a mobile one - so it uses more power but they say it can get much longer updates than other phones. I usually have the screen set to 60Hz to save power, but a cheeky 120Hz session feels great.

I got standard Android but replaced the proprietary store/apps (updates still requires Google Pain Store). I planned to try out an Android fork later but that's was not as easy as I had naively thought. [Requires an SDK binary that come with non-free license and 3rd party guides to build it myself were rather dead].

I not aware it could run non-android OS - do you have exp installing a Linux phone OS? How did you find that? I'll have to look into FF5 compatibility.

[sxan@midwest.social]

Thanks for the info!

I just went looking to see what it ran and found this forum, which has a pretty comprehensive list.

I didn't have much trouble getting Touch on a really old Pixel, but the battery runs down in 3 or 4 hours so I didn't do anything with it. That's probably more to do with the age of the phone than the OS.

[sxan@midwest.social]

That's what's been stopping me; it has to at least be a decent phone, and it sends as if there's always something.

Touch is supposed to run on the FP5 - I guess I need to find a functionality Matrix now.

[archomrade@midwest.social]

Tldr - selfhosting is useful when:

• you need a lot of storage

• you need a lot of processing

• you are collaborating with multiple people/family members

• you are sharing media with other people outside your network

• you are sharing media across devices

• you want a standalone backup independent of your mobile device without doing so manually

• you want more advanced AI features that are not feasible to do on device (such as image detection or live security camera object detection)

• you want your home IOT devices to work locally without a cloud connection

• you have old hardware collecting dust and want to put it to use

• you like to make things

Seems like you might have understood the purpose of those apps, you just didn't personally have those needs yourself, and that's fine

[hybridsarcasm@lemmy.world]

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