With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker’s docs.

Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?

  • Javi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    The change maker feature would be to arrive home and plug your phone in a dock station and have a desktop to use as a pc

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been talking about this for years! I got the idea from razer but I’m imagining the laptop chassis adds a nice screen, enormous battery, better IO, and then it just uses the touch screen as the track pad.

      It could be so cool

    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I have a Steam Deck dock specifically for this. Except the mouse comes up on the phone screen instead of the monitor. Weird bug.

    • Brickhead92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      But then how would I look at my phone while using my Desktop.

      I’ll need a dummy phone to doom scroll on.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    my friends complaining that my plex server because I left my phone on the bus and it ran out of charge

  • node815@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Maybe your own adblocker, I thought about doing that myself, I use the public one from adguard on my phone (dns.aguard-dns.com) but having it on your own device would be pretty slick perhaps. But thinking about it more, Google wouldn’t just let you use an internal IP for the private DNS. I have tried it with my locally hosted adblocker and it rejects it.

    Or you could set up a dashboard like Homepage or Dashy, or Flame or ? Ultimately, your imagination would do! :)

  • knF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Impressive! Can you please link the instructions you followed?

    Some time ago I was hosting the full ARR suite, bitwarden, AdGuard etc, but it was usually a mess with direct installs. With docker it might be worth revisiting it.

    My only advice, buy a usb-ETH dongle, it will make a huge difference in stability

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Oh nice! I’d love to run an ad blocker/dns/reverse proxy on something with a little more beef than the Pi zero I’ve got now.

    Jellyfin and or Pi zero does not like streaming through the video.local address I’ve got setup, so i have to use IP address to get anything without stuttering.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      pi zero for streaming is insane not gonna lie. What sort of resolution do you stream it at?

      A decently newish phone would blow even a pi 5 out of the water I bet. Modern GPU drivers from snapdragon or mediatek plus core designs that arent 7 years old out of the factory would be a godsend for low-watt homelabbers

      • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Dang, I just realized I didn’t explain the setup well enough:

        An old laptop runs the Jellyfin server, but the Pi runs the reverse proxy. For some reason, trying to use the reverse proxied address causes problems, but connecting directly to the laptop via IP address and port runs fine.

        I tried a Jellyfin server with a pi 2 or 3 and it couldn’t serve more than one client at a time. So i imagine a zero wouldn’t even be able to load the app, much less serve anything :/

        My main reason for running my DNS/ad block/nginx through the zero, sometimes the laptop goes down, freezes, or fails to clear the transcodes folder, so having that stuff separate keeps at least part of the network running.