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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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nancyminusone ◴[18 Jun 25 19:54 UTC] No.44312819[source]▶
>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually.

I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.

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1. dzhiurgis ◴[18 Jun 25 21:53 UTC] No.44313586[source]▶
EcoFlow batteries are pretty expensive too.

Also that's about 500kWh of power annually which averages to 50W. There is just no way iPhone uses that much.

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2. winter_blue ◴[18 Jun 25 22:20 UTC] No.44313759[source]▶
The author has a mini PC plugged into the EcoFlow as well. That uses the bulk of the power.