[HN Gopher] Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server ___________________________________________________________________ Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server Author : carride Score : 27 points Date : 2023-04-28 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (davidhampgonsalves.com) (TXT) w3m dump (davidhampgonsalves.com) | pedrogpimenta wrote: | There might be something wrong with your device if it kept | closing Termux due to RAM. | | Up until 1 month ago, I used my Galaxy S7 as my phone and I ran | navidrome inside Linux (AnLinux) inside Termux and it didn't | close automatically. | | I now do the same with a Galaxy S10e as the already semi-broken | S7 decided to call it quits. | causality0 wrote: | _Trying to charge it revealed that the charging port was broken. | I didn't want to dig too deeply into the device but I got lucky | and was given another S7 with a bad battery_ | | Could've taped a dollar store qi puck to the back of it. | | _Thus I transcoded everything to mp3 at a lower bitrate that was | still acceptable to my ears._ | | Somebody please tell me under what circumstances listening to low | bit rate mp3 is better than dropping fifteen bucks on a 256GB | microsd card. That is pants on head crazy. | [deleted] | dsr_ wrote: | It goes along with trying to repurpose a phone as a server: not | much money, use what you've got. | kleer001 wrote: | > That is pants on head ... entertaining | | I love these quirky working too hard for an iota of | questionable gains. It warms my heart and soothes my soul. IMHO | this kind of behaviour is going to be our saving grace when the | aliens come and see if we're fit to join the galactic | community. :P ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-28 23:00 UTC)