u/Salty-Ocelot-8398

I have an old MI Android phone with:

• 2GB RAM
• 32GB storage
• decent battery health
• always-on WiFi possible
• android 10
• octa core cpu 2.00 GHz
• Model M2006C3LI

I'm a software engineer and recently started experimenting with turning it into a mini homelab node.

Things I already tried:

• PicoClaw
• Termux-based setups
• lightweight SSH/server experiments

The issue is that most “old phone server” tutorials online feel gimmicky or impractical long-term.

I'm looking for genuinely useful or technically interesting ideas that fit low-resource hardware well.