PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition - Pine64 - January 2022 News

[gadget42]

more:

https://jonathancarter.org/2023/06/09/phone-upgraded-to-debian-12/

[neonix]

Old smartphones can be used as cheap router, vpn, rdp, pxe, dns, vnc, firewall, ftp, tor, torrent, squid.

[gadget42]

still the best place to post these updates
(huge thanks to russell for the attempts and efforts and taking the time to document them)

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/10/11/pinephone-status/

[neonix]

Is it possible to use old smatohone as cheap CCTV camera? But not with WiFi communication but USB cable and small Raspbery Pi near camera. There is also humidity problem, not all smarphone are water resistant. Are Raspbery Pis are designed to work outside home?

[Juanito]

I imagine you could buy a water resistant enclosure that would take an RPi and RPi camera.

[gadget42]

Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux - June 16, 2023 - Drew DeVault's blog

https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/16/Mobile-linux-retrospective.html

always a huge hat-tip to drew for his many insightful commentaries