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by crazygringo 1280 days ago
No, nobody was talking about that. The context was clearly one's personal Android phone (in the article), and "your smartphone" in the original comment (not "an extra/old"). The one you carry with you all the time. The article even admitted you'd have to "carry an extra battery".
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kornhole 1280 days ago
OK. There are P2P mobile based social media services such as https://www.manyver.se/ already running. Although every node is serving/getting messages, I am not sure they can be called servers.
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rambambram 1280 days ago
No, I - as the OP - said also "pocket computer" very explicitly. If a 'personal mobile server' would become reality, it's not going to be a smartphone + something else on top.
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stale2002 1280 days ago
Ok, but yes it would still be cool if any of these devices, whatever you want to call them, could be plugged in somewhere and act as a server.

> (not "an extra/old").

So then you concede completely, that anyone talking about these devices, would indeed be correct to say that it is cool to turn these devices into servers.

Great, you agree that there is a usecases for this.

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