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I actually think it's just a poor title, "my server runs on a phone now" would be better.

As it is, I expected the server to now have a modem, to be operating as a phone.

That also elides the distinction between "the server" as a piece of hardware and "the server" as a piece of software, which in an HN context is not insignificant.

Only in as much as "phone" as telephony hardware, "phone" as telephony software, and "phone" as a shortening of "smartphone" in the same way.

The author should have swapped the title with the subtitle: "rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home".

that title might be easier to parse, but it's less poetic and less attention grabbing

The goal as a blog author should not be to grab attention and mislead readers into starting your article only to realise it's not what they expected and were interested in.

Why do you think misleading was the goal?

To me it was a clear and a very fitting title.

(But my first language is german, maybe that has some influence)

I doubt it was OP's goal. Commenter I responded to on the other hand said that the original was more 'attention grabbing' than my clarifying amendment, and that's what I said ought not be the goal.

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