David Hamp-Gonsalves turned an old Samsung Galaxy S7 sitting in a drawer into a music streaming server. First they tried running a really handy Android app called Termux that exposes a Linux terminal to the user and installing Navidrome - a lightweight music stream server - but that shat itself every few days, running out of RAM. Ultimately they ended up rooting the phone, installing LineageOS, removing everything non-essential to free up RAM and trying termux and Navidrome again. Works fine, uses fuck all electricity and repurposes a device that would have otherwise ended up as e-waste. You love to see it. Might try this out on a cracked screen Samsung S10 I've got sitting in my junk drawer.
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