15:24 <jfred> Just had a random (not necessarily practical) thought... imagine a home server type device running Sandstorm, but instead of grains running on the device directly, they run on recycled Android phones that are plugged into it and are reverse-proxied

15:24 <jfred> I'm sure there are many reasons that would be extremely difficult to do, but it was a fun thought :P

15:26 <abliss> i think sandstorm inc had some plans for scaling by sharding across machines... was it called 'blackrock?'

15:30 <jfred> yeah - https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/hosting-provider/

15:30 <jfred> (seems they used it for their hosting service while that was a thing)

15:31 <isd> blackrock was the multi-node backend that was used to run oasis. In theory the compute backend was pluggable.

15:32 <isd> It's unmaintained though, probably bitrotten, and there wasn't much community interest; it was oriented more towards scalable "cloud" deployments, and folks were mostly interested in self-hosting.

15:39 <isd> Also, an arm port would be a prereq anyway

15:58 <jfred> yeah. definitely not practical at this point haha

15:58 <jfred> (also you'd have to live with the phone's kernel almost certainly having known vulnerabilities)

16:38 <isd> I'm also not entirely sure what the point would be?