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  • I’ve not run such things on Apple hardware, so can’t speak to the functionality, but you’d definitely be able to do it cheaper with PC hardware.

    The problem with this kind of setup is going to be heat. There are definitely cheaper minipcs, but I wouldn’t think they have the space for this much memory AND a GPU, so you’d be looking for an AMD APU/NPU combo maybe. You could easily build something about the size of a game console that does this for maybe $1.5k.








  • First things first: you may be misunderstanding how phones run Linux. A stock Debian install certainly will not work for a number of reasons, but mainly drivers. Storage is second. Phones are flashed with specific images created to work with the storage in each specific phone.

    Second: you’d need to make sure the bootloader on your phone is unlocked and able to be used for such a thing. Quick search shows that Ubuntu Touch did work on it at some point, but was deprecated long ago.

    Third: if you just want practice, you can probably find packages to install on the phone that will run an HTTP server. That might be a simpler path.

    I’m not saying don’t try, but you’d be starting from scratch, and if you aren’t familiar with these things already, I’m not sure this is a forum to get enough help on the VERY involved process of bootstrapping just a basic running kernel on your phone model. It probably can be done, but you’d be doing it from scratch it seems.