There’s actually a bit of a backstory on how I ended up with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro for a short amount of time (it’s a cheap phone):
during a fastboot flash, my Oneplus 8 Pro got bricked because Oneplus decided from one day to another to include in their firmware packages a bootloader that’s incompatible with the device.
Since that was my daily driver, and the OnePlus 5T was too old for me to return to (the software was too old and the camera sucks), I bought the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro. This worked fine for a while as a temporary replacement, but the camera was still crazy bad (but ok-ish for a 200 USD device). I then bought a Pixel 7 that I’m still using as a daily driver (with GrapheneOS).
My Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro is now being used as a second device whose main purpose is to act as an OCR API / server. All the other devices are either in a drawer or part of my Kubernetes cluster.
I’ve also “owned” other devices (Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G and Samsung Galaxy S24), but I was using them as work phones: I gifted the first one to my brother and returned the second one to the company I’ve worked at.
The Oneplus Nord mentioned in the article was bought second hand (~40 USD) with the intent of joining the Kubernetes cluster too - which I still haven’t had the time to do.
It’s very cool, but I’m shocked you go through so many phones. 5 phones in 10 years is nuts to me.
There’s actually a bit of a backstory on how I ended up with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro for a short amount of time (it’s a cheap phone): during a
fastboot flash, my Oneplus 8 Pro got bricked because Oneplus decided from one day to another to include in their firmware packages a bootloader that’s incompatible with the device.Since that was my daily driver, and the OnePlus 5T was too old for me to return to (the software was too old and the camera sucks), I bought the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro. This worked fine for a while as a temporary replacement, but the camera was still crazy bad (but ok-ish for a 200 USD device). I then bought a Pixel 7 that I’m still using as a daily driver (with GrapheneOS).
My Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro is now being used as a second device whose main purpose is to act as an OCR API / server. All the other devices are either in a drawer or part of my Kubernetes cluster.
I’ve also “owned” other devices (Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G and Samsung Galaxy S24), but I was using them as work phones: I gifted the first one to my brother and returned the second one to the company I’ve worked at.
The Oneplus Nord mentioned in the article was bought second hand (~40 USD) with the intent of joining the Kubernetes cluster too - which I still haven’t had the time to do.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I recently put together a cluster of Pi 5s with Microk8s. I’m pretty surprised at how well it performs. I like this approach too though.
I have a cluster with a mix of 5s, 4s, and 3Bs running k3s, pretty happy with it too.