While cleaning, I found an old Redmi 12 phone that’s still in perfect condition. Anyone know what fun things I could do with it? Thinking about experimenting software wise, repurposing it for other things etc. Any ideas?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 day ago
    • Termux has lots of possibilities
    • Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
    • I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
    • Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
    • Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
    • Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
    • Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.
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      Thanks! Lots to check out here. It’s 128GB tho, so the entire Wikipedia dump will sadly not be possible … hahaha The “useful useless app” phone might be the way to go. Other than that I was also thinking about using it as a dedicated (offline) media player

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      24 hours ago

      ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!"

      I had to do this just the other day. Hospital wanted to use a third party stuff for a sleep monitor. Talk about an invasive app!

      Fine, you go on this phone that was never used by me, that’s been wiped and had lineage installed.