Found some of my old phones, what should I do with 'em? Almost all of them run LineageOS already (i.e. all but the iPhone 6) with TWRP, so they are definitely available modification

Make a 3D scanner

Sell them all, buy raspberry pi’s, enjoy tinkering with them 😁

@theKarlisK well if I get a raspberry pi, I’ll probably just use it as a server or install pi hole on it haha 😅

@Electrux but pis are more expensive than phones you already have.

Especially if you need to buy a few mics, speakers, cameras and screens.

@Codex404 that may be true... but I can’t put up my phone as a server or ad blocker for entire home... can I?

@Electrux Yes you can

@theKarlisK phones are powerful enough to use as pihole or a small server. Graphically most phones perform better than a Pi as well

Oh... well I’m that case never mind what I said and perhaps just tinker around with ur phone 😁

Use one in your car: car camera, waze, music player...

@theKarlisK The intercom idea sure seems interesting 👀

@Electrux Do you have any idea if phones support pihole out of the box, or if there is some phone linux distro?

Use the gold plating to make jewellery for your ants they'll love it lmao

@N1teshsurana Gold plating? Ants?

@Proximyst pi hole supports the major Linux distros... assuming u can get one to install on ur phone, u should theoretically be able to install pi hole easily... I think Debian or Ubuntu should be easiest

@Electrux Installing any linux distro on any of the phones will probably be the hardest part tbh. Might be better off with trying to run it with Magisk or something

@Proximyst Gold plated circuit boards, connector pins, ICs, ceramic capacitors my friend.
Google it. Not worth a try but if you have a lot of scrap, then it's worth.

@N1teshsurana Which ants, though aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@Proximyst , I wish there was some OS that had only a PDF reader. Just that. Nothing else. (Cry me a Kindle I have no money) but it would be so amazing.

@Proximyst , the gold extracted is very tiny and meagre. So, your ants ma'am.

@Electrux android is a linux distro of sorts. When unlocked it can run a regular pihole as well. Although a server distro is probably faster.

@Codex404 Is there any raw linux distro, though? I.e. not Android, but an actual distro which is installable as Arch is

@N1teshsurana I DONT HAVE ANTS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@Proximyst , *you won 1-0*

Make IOT devices out of them. A camera, a digital assistant, or put them into a case with some speakers and use Spotify to remotely play music.

Docker swarm?

I remember there was a modded linux able to run on a Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4. A friend of mine use the nexus 4 as a small home server (just a Apache and small file share) with an otg attached HDD ... I think you can not have something more energy efficient in that category :D

@RantSomeWhere I think I'll rather stick with CopperheadOS, as that's just about perfect for me as of now.

@Rohr Link? 👀

@Proximyst found it on XDA those days ... dont have it handy atm but will have a look later and will let you know ;)

but, I did not follow up on this thing since then. even if I find it, I don't know if it got maintained over the years.

@Condor That's a pretty cool idea.

@Rohr I'll have an eye out 👀