• Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s a good idea. Most people are not tech-oriented, which means it will be a huge security risk. And I want my smartphone to be a phone first and foremost. I want it to have a good battery life so that if I need to make an emergency call, I can rely on it.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I use a dumb phone for that, and due to my provider’s oversight, I get 1 MB for free a day on a prepaid card, enough for basic stuff like train timetables on Opera Mini (no email due to privacy concerns but I am frequently enough on Wi-Fi anyway). So I carry two phones: my smartphone has no SIM card and is used most of the time while my Nokia lasts a week while in standby.
      So neither phone could work as a server, nor would most of anyone else’s given that everyone expects 100% uptime, which phones don’t really provide.

      However, how about using one of the three rooted Android 4.4 phones in my drawer? My home Wi-Fi, a USB charger and a root app that runs a remotely maintainable web server would make it a great website hosting option. Sadly, I don’t know any Java and few people develop for Android versions before 5, among other things because of its bring-your-own-TLS-1.2-implementation necessity.