So the Fairphone 2 runs on just a USB cable with no battery inside?
Yup that's right!
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so once you have a web server on the phone how are you able to make it available publicly on the internet? don't ISPs detect these and ban? are you using wireguard or something like that?
ive been looking to build and serve my own servers and i have been considering to use old android phones to outright racks but the part I am still struggling to figure out is how to serve it publicly without ISP catching on as they require business plans for that and its not cheap
In my experience (in Germany and Switzerland) ISPs don’t care, but they will rotate everybody’s IP once or twice a year.
Friends from other countries, India for example, have had different experiences though, where IPs were on a much more frequent rotation and required scripted solutions.
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> At some point we really need to think if this is the web we want,
You think we have a say in this?
You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.
Are you experiencing the HN hug of death or is your website down? Either way I'm super interested in what you're building and I'd love to use it but I cannot reach your link at the moment. Good luck with the endeavor either way and thank you for building this.
Happy you're interested! I haven't set-up the website yet but feel free to reach-out via email (you'll find it in my hn profile)
Working on a charity + website (not live yet) that allows you to centrally manage your charity donations.
I'm in Germany so I'm working on a Germany-specific solution for now.
- you choose from a list of charities (right now I'm working with the list from the https://dzi.de plus a few such as Wikimedia Deutschland)
- you setup a recurring donation to our bank account
- we redistribute the money according to your split
- no spam in your email and snail mail
- one pdf at the end of the year for your tax returns
I'm not planning on taking any cut of the donations obviously, so this will be a fully self-funded project at first, but I'll reach-out to foundations once I'm up and running.
The URL will be https://super.giving/ (not setup yet, should be fairly soon).
I'm also planning on releasing the source code as open-source.
I'd be happy to hear your feedback, either here or via email :)
Modern hardware is fast, if you cannot fit more than 100 users (not even 100 concurrent users) on a single $50/month server, you're doing something very very wrong.
Even repurposed 10 years old fairphone[1] can handle more than that.
[1]: https://far.computer
Thank you stranger.