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An old monitor + previous generation Raspberry Pi: hangs on the kitchen wall to display Find My Friends in kiosk mode. Connected to a timer so it's on in the afternoon until dinner so you can see the family come home. Really cute to see your children move as little picture icons across the map towards you from school.
https://postmarketos.org/ They are attempting to build a os for smartphones based on Alpine linux with the stated goal of supporting a 10 year life cycle. They have a limited list of devices they support but I have heard good things about them.
I wish my hardware would last that long. Two previous phones I bought have lasted less than 2 years.
Not a company, but sharing a personal project: I got a free broken 55" TV and turned it into a big daylight panel. I got a great explanation of why this works well (fresnel lens) from the DIY Perks channel on YouTube: Turning Smashed TVs into Realistic Artificial Daylight ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4 ). The main board had failed so the screen was black and the backlight cycled on and off. After disco…
Just FYI, repairing flat panel TVs by replacing the boards is fairly easy. Sometimes it's even an upgrade if you find a newer revision of the same board. The boards tend to be used in multiple models of TV, so they're easier to find than you might think.
An old monitor + previous generation Raspberry Pi: hangs on the kitchen wall to display Find My Friends in kiosk mode. Connected to a timer so it's on in the afternoon until dinner so you can see the family come home. Really cute to see your children move as little picture icons across the map towards you from school.
My parents' tracking of me in the 1990s was awful enough. I dread to think what they have set up I were 12 years old today.
I used my old Moto G1 as a baby camera/monitor. Ingredients: - RTSP Camera Server on Moto G - Address reservation for Moto G on DHCP server - VLC and Shortcut to URL [1] Worked like a charm. Much better than other solutions I considered trustworthy. [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miv.rtspca... [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.miotti.Shor...
It's great to have a permanent visible reminder of what I intended to be doing. I used to do that with sticky notes, but that had the big disadvantage of not being visible except right at my desk.
Not very creative: I use my older phone to read books in the hot tub. This way, if I drop it, I don't loose my fancy new expensive phone.
you have a fancy new phone that isn't waterproof? mine is and it's not even that expensive.
In an attempt to be more present with one another away from our phooes, my partner and I have (ironically) started using old phones as single-app devices. For example: we have a "spotiphone" which is an old iPhone with a shattered camera that has only Spotify installed that we use in our bedroom to control music/podcasts. Similar thing for where my partner meditates (but it's an old iPod touch). Our real phones are u…
...struggling to work out what to do now though as the next generation of laptops needs to retire. Might try donating but I'm not optimistic
My friend had a raspberry pi2, which he didnt want because of lack of bt and wifi, that is my plex server now.
Have you noticed any issues? Especially transcoding?