Merge pull request #4692 from galaxyproject/pmos-alcatel

PostmarketOS Galaxy Joke Post

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+title: "🪐📲 Hosting Galaxy at the Edge: Directly in Your Pocket!"
+tags: [fun, system administrators, developers, humour]
+contributions:
+  authorship: [mtekman]
+  editing: [hexylena]
+  infrastructure: [mtekman]
+layout: news
+cover: news/images/2024-01-31-postmarket-phone-cover.jpg
+coveralt: cropped picture of a mobile phone interface showing a terminal with Galaxy log outputs.
+---
+
+Hey Galaxy admins! Have you ever wanted to administer your own instance from
+the luxury of your pocket?
+
+Now you can, with **Galaxy In Your Pocket™!**
+
+## Why?
+
+Run your instance without having to worry about the usual concerns: a
+noisy server, too many cables, bad internet, or just a plain
+unwillingness to spend time away from a screen.
+
+Having *Galaxy In Your Pocket™*, you can run and administer your own
+instance all from the same portable device that you use to ignore your
+loved ones with!
+
+## How?
+
+With [just a few steps](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3644481), you
+can have Galaxy running on a mobile ARM device of your own.
+
+![Galaxy running on an Alcatel Idol 347]({% link news/images/2024-01-31-postmarket-phone.jpg %} "Galaxy running on an Alcatel Idol 347")
+
+Above is an image of Galaxy running within
+[Phosh UI](https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Phosh) in *PostmarketOS* on an old
+[Alcatel Idol 347](https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Alcatel_Idol_3_4.7%22_(alcatel-idol347)),
+using a Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU and 1.3GB of RAM, with a 5GB swap mounted.
+
+Galaxy appears to use around ~1 GB RAM, and the phone still has enough
+memory to spare to access the Galaxy UI via Firefox.
+
+## Really, why?
+
+Just imagine: *Galaxy In Your Pocket™*! A united Galaxy Client and
+Galaxy Server running on your phone 📲, which you can then access using
+that same phone's web browser.
+
+It's the perfect setup that only a *true and dedicated* Galaxy Admin
+such as yourself can dream about.
+
+Or if you're not buying any of this, then it's for those emergency
+situations where you forgot your laptop and need to solve a bioinformatics crisis on the go 🧬🌄