• ikt@aussie.zoneOP
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    16 days ago

    This is a process whereby the motherboards of retired smartphones are extracted, collected into clusters, and redeployed

    the university plans to deploy a datacenter built from 2,000 Pixel smartphones

    Is a bit more than installing postmarketOS on some older hardware

    it would be great if manufacturers+google opened this up to everyone

    absolutely, one of my biggest wishes is that AI inference could be split up and done on home computers, similar to Folding@Home, with points and maybe even $ given to those who participate

    We’ve never had more computing power in our hands but it feels like so much of it just sits idle now