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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 | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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slg ◴[18 Jun 25 21:57 UTC] No.44313614[source]▶
There is also the roughly $1k in costs for the solar and battery hardware even if we consider the iPhone itself free since it is so old.
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HenryBemis ◴[18 Jun 25 22:42 UTC] No.44313913[source]▶
I was just checking the combo he is using [0] (River 2 Pro + 220W solar generator) and it's currently at USD 619. In the post, the author sums it at USD 780. I assume price dropped because of newer models, etc.

[0]: https://us.ecoflow.com/products/river-2-pro-portable-power-s...

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1. slg ◴[18 Jun 25 23:36 UTC] No.44314167[source]▶
There were also $280 of other vague miscellaneous costs listed among the initial investments that I was including as part of that "roughly $1k"