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Estonian engineers turn 15-year-old $9 trash phones into pocket-sized data centers
Interesting Engineering ^ | June 25, 2025 | Kaif Shaikh

Posted on 06/27/2025 6:27:28 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

“that outperform Raspberry Pi at a fraction of the cost.”

Except for the printer and computer needed to to make that rack... lol


21 posted on 06/27/2025 12:51:15 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

But once it’s made it’s all profit!...................


22 posted on 06/27/2025 12:54:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Space shuttle used computing power equal to an IBM 286 processor. But... Stability and solid switching was much more important than speed.


23 posted on 06/27/2025 12:55:50 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Red Badger

True... If you are in the business to sell those. Mine would have to be cut from a Walmart letter organizer... lol


24 posted on 06/27/2025 12:57:38 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: ShadowAce

Damn Elbonians.


25 posted on 06/28/2025 2:28:29 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Red Badger
More than 1.2 billion smartphones roll off factory lines each year, and the WEEE Forum estimates that 5.3 billion of them are simply discarded annually.

Net minus 4B phones every year? Seems Ike we should be running out of phones pretty quick!
26 posted on 06/28/2025 12:42:13 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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If these are cheap type phones, imagine what could be done with a handful of iPhones!.............

If you read the excerpt, they used the Google Nexus. So a 15-year-old phone that's about the same as a 15-year-old iPhone.
27 posted on 06/28/2025 12:55:36 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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