@benjohn @selfhosted 6-8 GB of RAM with powerful CPU and GPU that was designed to run games and can in some cases run small AI models is nothing to scoff at imho.
@selfhosted Update:
It does not need to be perfect, have massive throughput or allow for massive amounts of read/write cycles.
If people can host their own media server like Jellyfin or note taking apps like Joplin instead of using commercial services by simply installing an APK on an old phone they can leave connected at home, that's already a big win.
@RegalPotoo Maybe I should have been more specific in the wording of my title.
No one planning on hosting public multi-user service that would see some serious traffic would probably benefit from hosting on a phone.
Someone who wants to simply run a single-user instance or their personal nextcloud? I think that's a real possibility.
@southsamurai Oh that's definitely a huge concern, but not just for self-hosting but for privacy in general.
But still, if the average joe wants to self-host something using an old phone is probably the easiest way to get them to try self-hosted alternatives and drop corporate / commercial services.
Maybe not the 'average average joe' such as my parents, but anyone who is minimally curious enough to do stuff such as registering a domain, setting up a game server for friends and maybe has opened the CMD windows console once or twice in the past following a tutorial. That kind of demographic (IDK if it has a name) might be much more inclined to self-host if it was as easy as installing an APK and letting your phone one somewhere at home.
Overall as long as Android doesn't become straight out malicious spyware itself, the benefit of dropping commercial alternatives might very well be a net positive. In a worst-case scenario, any tunnel / vpn configuration necessary to expose a service to the internet could also add an automated step to blackhole requests to google's tracking servers.
Fuck yeah: Be gay, save rights - Be trans, fight fascism
cc: @memes
What's a current or past furry crush you have from an animated movie, show, book, game, etc. ?
I'll go first.
I first discovered Klonoa in a demo disc for the PS2. I was way younger back then, of course and even though I wasn't able to afford the game I fell for the character.
Fan art of Klonoa was probably one of the reasons I discovered the furry fandom.
cc: @chat
(art by Souno: https://twitter.com/DF_img/status/1491739205751681025)
I want to give a shout out to the SFW Feral Art Bot on Mastodon/Fediverse @feralbot and @animalshapes, an incredible artist that I found this week.
Also, on lemmy I've been digging !tech@pawb.social a lot. And !animals@beehaw.org is a must for a daily dose of "aaaaw".
@jessecool1234 It has had a huge positive impact, especially since it allowed me to meet people who are non-judgemental and accept me for who I am.
It's allowed me to be myself in a world where I had learned to pretend to not be "the weird kid" and tried to fit in too much. @chat
@BrooklynMan while I realize that it sometimes doesn't make sense to care too much for how mastodon users see things, maybe there's some way top posts and comments can be distinguished so that we can filter them out. But I do understand that there's limitations and it's a reasonable compromise.
@BrooklynMan yeah, this is pretty awesome. The only big thing I'm struggling with is that the community account, as seen from Mastodon, boosts absolutely everything... all comments, in any order, not just top level posts.
@MigratingtoLemmy use a hammer to break the screen, control via adb :vlpn_happy_blep: