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In this workshop we collectively examine the infrastructure behind the Internet by building a our own (prototype) server on an old smartphone.
Since the democratisation of the Internet in the 90s, the operations and communications we perform on the Internet have kept rising massively. Nowadays, we often hear about the cloud, as a way to describe all the online services that we access daily, such as emails, social media, data storage, video-streaming, AI chat bots, etc. But what does the Internet look like behind this fog screen?
I like the idea, but I have two questions about using a phone here:
- We know that older phones don’t get updates and is it really wise to put a unpatchable server on the internet?
- What about the battery? We know that constantly charging an old battery is not that great.
#1 would probably depend on the software being used to filter traffic.
#2 would probably just mean they are plugged in 24/7
I’m not sure here. Plugging in a phone 24/7 also means that you’re always running on full charge? And that you are always charging a dead battery?
Both, by the time these devices are being used the batteries are probably pretty toasted. Might just make sense to remove them, but I’m not sure if that’s possible on all devices
Yeah, that was my question: Most phones have built in, not removable batteries and the question was if that may be a problem
When fully charged, the controller stops charging and just maintains the 100%
