These two threads on HN about using old iPhones for compute reminded me of an old idea (that probably came up from reading the second link) of using my older iDevices to run OCRs for Millefeuille. Just putting this out in case I forget again.
- My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server (terminalbytes.com)
- Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (findthatmeme.com)
Spare devices I currently have
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 11 (currently in use as webcam for Mac Studio)
- iPad Mini 4/5 (screens cracked)
- Pixel something
- 2012 Mac Mini
- 2018 Mac Mini (currently in use as pi-hole / local Jenkins server)