Android Self hosting
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What is the current wisdom about having an android device always plugged in? Some people say that it will kill and pillow the battery, but does it really?
The trick of retrofitting any battery powered device into a wired one is to remove the battery. No matter what, Li-ion batteries cannot sustain permanent power. Expensive adapters and new Androids can regulate power well, as can automations, but the best worry-free option is battery removal.
Edit: I've just remembered Fairphone, they're bossing the mobile repair ability front and have removable batteries like pre-2012. Could get one of those
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"Android 15" but this was QPR2 specifically
How can we bring that to a real world (read: cheap Chinese) phone?
Not sure, but if LineageOS supports it, that should be all you need
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Maybe your own adblocker, I thought about doing that myself, I use the public one from adguard on my phone (dns.aguard-dns.com) but having it on your own device would be pretty slick perhaps. But thinking about it more, Google wouldn't just let you use an internal IP for the private DNS. I have tried it with my locally hosted adblocker and it rejects it.
Or you could set up a dashboard like Homepage or Dashy, or Flame or ? Ultimately, your imagination would do!
Unfortunately, from trying this myself, I don't think you can forward port 53 to the Android host, so that won't work (easily). It seems that privileged ports aren't allowed to be forwarded.
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Early alpha, but yea it's full on Linux in Android. Quite slick
Is it an app I should be able to just find in my installed apps or do I need to enable it?
Because as of now (Pixel 7, Android 15) I can only find Termux. -
The lines between mobile device and server get blurred even more.
Tbh a laptop is a "mobile" device
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Is it an app I should be able to just find in my installed apps or do I need to enable it?
Because as of now (Pixel 7, Android 15) I can only find Termux.You have to be on the March update, then go to Developer options -> Linux environment, and enable it. Then 'Terminal' will appear in your apps drawer.
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With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker's docs.
Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?
This is simultaneously cool and cursed af.
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With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker's docs.
Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?
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While this is very exciting, I just tried it, and the network connectivity seems to be broken. No IPv6.
I can't get it to have network connection while my phone is on cellular data. On wifi it's fine.
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Maybe your own adblocker, I thought about doing that myself, I use the public one from adguard on my phone (dns.aguard-dns.com) but having it on your own device would be pretty slick perhaps. But thinking about it more, Google wouldn't just let you use an internal IP for the private DNS. I have tried it with my locally hosted adblocker and it rejects it.
Or you could set up a dashboard like Homepage or Dashy, or Flame or ? Ultimately, your imagination would do!
I do it. It has be DOT and you have to have a valid cert.
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Tbh a laptop is a "mobile" device
It's a server with integrated UPS and KVM console.
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I can't get it to have network connection while my phone is on cellular data. On wifi it's fine.
I just checked, and I have connectivity while on cellular. Maybe (just wild speculation) your mobile network is IPv6-only? Android (not Linux) should list 192.0.0.4 as an IP address in that case.
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Native in what sense? As I understand it that uses a VM of some sort
You're right actually it's not native I don't know what I'm on about
Still it's much easier to have a baked in terminal app than having to install proot on top of termux, hopefully it will have less of a performance impact than proot as well. -
Docker does work on Android. That's what OP is showing off.
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With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker's docs.
Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?
these are the times when I get jealous, as an iOS user
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these are the times when I get jealous, as an iOS user
I dont know how you can stand using iOS. Its just so unintuitive, theres no back button and I can't even figure out copy/paste.
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these are the times when I get jealous, as an iOS user
You're free to join us
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I dont know how you can stand using iOS. Its just so unintuitive, theres no back button and I can't even figure out copy/paste.
Copy paste is easy. You just tap on the, no wait you tap on the, fuck hold on. You tap, there we are, on the word and hold until it highlights. No wait hold on. Fuck. There we are. Ok now you tap on the highlighted word to copy, fuck wait Ah fuck it just type it again yourself
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It's a server with integrated UPS and KVM console.
Except for that time I took out the battery because it was swollen and took the screen off to help with cooling. At least I still have my K and M
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Docker does work on Android. That's what OP is showing off.
Well, if they manage to get it working on Android I'll be really impressed.
