This might be a dumb question but is there any way to run a relay server on desktop and “tether” into it from a phone? Or is this pointless? Just wondering if that would save on battery or not?
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Haven can do this.
i think with recent versions of android they have made it so you can create a VPN connection over the USB easily (at last) and then of course just run the relay on that tunnel device et voila
would work with any relay
btw, i use reverse tethering on my phone and have my relay running (still testing but working pretty stable and reliable now) so my phone is always plugged in... and because android still doesn't have proper charging controls, i have to root it so i can set it to limit the charging to 80% so it doesn't blow up the battery running on cable all the time... you will discover this as you progress on your re-wiring journey with mobile devices
of course if your phone is running graphene you can probably actually get root and control the charge system to do this, but for other devices you can't reflash the rom rooting is the way
Amethyst lets you set your home/private/archive relay, so you can set that to that relay. That's about as close as I know to get there