One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Compute Cluster

Here’s the actual paper referenced in TFA:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3575693.3575710

It’s quite a nice, albeit not novel, idea, that definitely beats most if not all SFFs for small applications. Raspberries also can’t meaningfully compete with a standard smartphone wrt either performance or availability.

Is Ubuntu Touch still active? The supported devices like on their website is really ancient: https://ubports.com/supported-products

What I'd really love is to have a straight Ubuntu Server install for old android phones with nothing but a tty on the phone's screen.

I have some friends at the National Upcycled Computing Collective (https://www.nuccinc.org/) that have been talking about the untapped resource of older devices for several years.

I highly recommend checking them out.

2019 isn't exactly old for a phone, the Pixel 3A can still be bought new.

I recently started using my old android phones in place of a cheap VPS or raspberry Pi. Pi'z have gotten so expensive, and a phone with termux is pretty capable.