I have an old Galaxy S7 tablet, and I was wondering if it was a good idea to turn it into a server or a small console or smth. I have experience in networking, Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server, Windows 10/11, and I've setup Jellyfin, Plex, and Minecraft Bungeecord servers before on amd64-based devices. Is this a good idea? Or should I stick with desktop devices for my servers for now. I don't expect to get that much performance out of it, just trying to repurpose it.
I would normally recommend against it, but, as you have linux experience, I would highly recommend termux. It's a terminal emulator without root, and you can host apache servers and all sorts of fun things on it. I'm sure you could host a minecraft server if you did enough reading around. I would also recommend perhaps making it into a digital photo frame and sending files over the network to display, but very few people look at their pictures they take... Any server shenanigans and i'd install termux and maybe a distro on top depending on what packages you need / what you're familiar with.
You'll have to download from their github, and change a couple settings with adb related to process killing, but after that it's just a straight linux terminal, albeit without root access.
