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		sgt 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to repurpose your old phone into a web server Exactly but I suspect phones last longer when they are in idle/near sleep mode with screen off.

jayd16 23 days ago [–]

There was an era of mobile chips where they would clock very high for burst performance and get very warm, then throttle, and then repeat the cycle. It might be an issue of not properly getting into "sustained performance mode."

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