This post is an update of the second part of my Moto server series: https://lemmy.zip/post/72142441

Rumor has it that keeping an 8-year-old phone permanently plugged in with its equally ancient Li-ion battery might not be the greatest idea ever conceived.

Some even claimed that a phone needs a battery to work.

Very negative people.

Anyway, I removed it.

Pettyl did not care.

nginx: UP PHP-FPM: UP MariaDB: UP WordPress: UP cloudflared: UP sshd: UP

The battery is currently sitting next to the phone, contributing absolutely nothing to the project.

Pettyl is now running entirely from USB power, at around 37°C, while continuing to serve the website like this is completely normal.

There is, however, one tiny detail the haters may enjoy:

It can’t boot without the battery.

So the official Pettyl disaster recovery procedure is now:

  1. Insert battery
  2. Boot Pettyl
  3. Connect USB power
  4. Remove battery
  5. Pretend this is enterprise infrastructure

The battery is no longer a battery.

It is the starter motor.

I see no problems with this architecture.

Anyway, Part 3 is going great.

  • 0485@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    21 days ago

    Since when does a phone need a battery to run? It needs power, doesn’t matter where the power comes from.

    • tradicije@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      62·
      21 days ago

      well ACKSHUALLY 🤓☝️

      Unfortunately Pettyl is stupid enough to need the battery to boot, but smart enough to forget about it immediately afterwards.

      I don’t make the rules, I just host WordPress on an 8-year-old Motorola.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
      35·
      21 days ago

      Since their burst power consumption started using more current than a capacitor in the charging circuitry could provide

      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        Fun fact, this is also why Macbooks, at least some models, throttle the CPU if the battery is missing. My old Macbook went from 2.4 GHz to 800 MHz without the battery.

      • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        So the way I see it, the root cause is dogshit design that relies on the battery

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      20 days ago

      It’s something about how the charging circuitry is constructed. I’ve asked a handful of electrical engineers about it but they’ve never given me a good answer. My guess is that it’s easier/cheaper to design and build a circuit that only powers the phone off the battery, and only uses DC to charge the battery.