topic Re: Re: Re: Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server? in Tablets

Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server?

misterprofeshanul — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:33:38 GMT

I have an old Galaxy S7 tablet, and I was wondering if it was a good idea to turn it into a server or a small console or smth. I have experience in networking, Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server, Windows 10/11, and I've setup Jellyfin, Plex, and Minecraft Bungeecord servers before on amd64-based devices. Is this a good idea? Or should I stick with desktop devices for my servers for now. I don't expect to get that much performance out of it, just trying to repurpose it.

Re: Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server?

userKXYgnzeztM — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:10:23 GMT

I would normally recommend against it, but, as you have linux experience, I would highly recommend termux. It's a terminal emulator without root, and you can host apache servers and all sorts of fun things on it. I'm sure you could host a minecraft server if you did enough reading around.
I would also recommend perhaps making it into a digital photo frame and sending files over the network to display, but very few people look at their pictures they take...
Any server shenanigans and i'd install termux and maybe a distro on top depending on what packages you need / what you're familiar with.

Re: Re: Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server?

misterprofeshanul — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:11:23 GMT

Thx!

Re: Re: Re: Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server?

userKXYgnzeztM — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:19:58 GMT

You'll have to download from their github, and change a couple settings with adb related to process killing, but after that it's just a straight linux terminal, albeit without root access.

Re: Is it a good idea to turn a tablet into a server?

PrivacyandSecurity — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:36:26 GMT

End of life repurpose. I still use mine for content viewing and other things. Like a visual hard drive.