I have 2 older iPhones. A 7 Plus and a 9. Idk what to do with them. Is it possible to self host on iPhones?
Edit. Not iPhone 9, iPhone 8.
Just sell them for whatever and buy proper stuff
Sell them? They worth peanut
Sell them and buy peanut.
20 dollars can buy many peanuts
Explain!
The phones are probably still working. New battery and touchscreen and someone will be happy with it.
To the normal user it is e waste because it’s an old apple phone. It doesn’t matter how much you get for it. Just get rid of it so that someone can use it or strip it apart for its parts. And most importantly, to get it out of your sight.
What is your definition of “proper”, in this context?
There are loads of cheap Chinese mini-PCs based on Intel N95, N100 or N150, and they’d make the job easier than a phone or a Raspberry Pi. Spend a little more and you can get some pretty cheap AMD Ryzen-based models with much more capable CPUs.
I’d just pickup a 6-8th gen Intel workstation
Probably anything else. A pi is a good idea.
I used to run software on an old phone that basically worked as a camera NVR.
At some point the battery swelled up and I’m glad my house didn’t burn to the ground. I only noticed it because the glass screen protector on that phone had popped off from the screen flexing under pressure 😮
As long as you have a way of monitoring your phones, or at least physically isolating them from important things, then you could probably do it without many risks.
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Can be used as permanently plugged in wifi hotspots?