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Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by outworlder »

serf wrote: post #18

I think that the inside should match the motif that the outsides set. what I mean by that : the outside sets a tone of professional heavy-duty post-apocalyptic computing, yet the insides are filled with fragile wire connects, fragile routes, multiple boards and new (read: unproven) non-redundant technologies. I would expect something that exudes that aesthetic to be wired like a NASA project [0], use radiation harden…

While that would be neat, the drawback is a much higher barrier of entry for anyone building this (and a higher price).

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by masfuerte »

mulmen wrote: post #19
dabluecaboose wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a delay set in my profile because I often edit a comment once or twice after posting, and don't want to cause issues by someone attempting to respond to a comment that's about to change. I didn't realize the comment showed as [delayed], I thought it just didn't post. Sorry for the trouble.

I also have a delay set in my profile. I give myself 10 minutes to edit or cool off and delete. But I have never seen a [delayed] comment. That seems to undermine the purpose of the delay.

It could be a bug. If the comment is about to become visible the code that chooses whether to show it at all might think the delay has expired but the code that renders it might still think it should be delayed. Especially if the rendering happens first.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by sneak »

andrewaylett wrote: post #24
sneak wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. This would be great if it could emulate usb storage, do transparent bridging via switch vlans, support serial consoles, etc, but it is just a case, battery, disk, and bad keyboard.

There's nothing particularly stopping you implementing at least most of that in software if you want. Stick a suitably-programmable switch in and you could do the rest too.

Exactly my point - this project seems of limited usefulness because it could have done a lot more but didn’t add much utility that a pi+screen+keyboard doesn’t already have.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by pests »

masfuerte wrote: post #32
mulmen wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have a delay set in my profile. I give myself 10 minutes to edit or cool off and delete. But I have never seen a [delayed] comment. That seems to undermine the purpose of the delay.

It could be a bug. If the comment is about to become visible the code that chooses whether to show it at all might think the delay has expired but the code that renders it might still think it should be delayed. Especially if the rendering happens first.

I've been an active reader on HN for over 12 years and I have _never_ seen a comment displayed as [delayed] even once. Not on the site nor any of the third party mobile apps, and I've tried a lot of them. Weird.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by pests »

fragmede wrote: post #5
sneak wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. This would be great if it could emulate usb storage, do transparent bridging via switch vlans, support serial consoles, etc, but it is just a case, battery, disk, and bad keyboard.

raspberry pi's support USB gadget mode, and can thus emulate USB storage with the right connector. TTL-level serial port pins exist as well.

This is how the PiKVM works. It pretends to be a hub with an attached mouse/keyboard (and optionally a flash drive/storage)

Then optionally you can connect your motherboards power/reset pins so you can reboot or turn off remotely.

Video is a third party HDMI capture card that plugs into the Pis camera port.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by __jonas »

masfuerte wrote: post #32
mulmen wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have a delay set in my profile. I give myself 10 minutes to edit or cool off and delete. But I have never seen a [delayed] comment. That seems to undermine the purpose of the delay.

It could be a bug. If the comment is about to become visible the code that chooses whether to show it at all might think the delay has expired but the code that renders it might still think it should be delayed. Especially if the rendering happens first.

Just a guess:

Maybe the person who saw it as [delayed] is using a third party HN reader app and the HN website itself filters out delayed comments while returning it via the API as the [delayed] string and expecting clients to do the filtering?

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by pugworthy »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #30

I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping? In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd. In an end-of-society situation you're likely on foot, m…

I get the feeling it's for fun. It's a maker's project, not a preppers project.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by tivert »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #30

I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping? In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd. In an end-of-society situation you're likely on foot, m…

> I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping?

> In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd.

Yeah, I've always thought these kinds of things were more of a LARP gizmo than any kind of actual "prepping." The priorities are all wrong. IMHO, if society collapses, the things you need will drastically change from your needs now. You don't need an offline Wikipedia or Youtube, even if you use them all the time today, you need something a lot more compact and practical.

IMHO, a real post-apocalyptic "recovery kit" is a cubic meter of K12 textbooks, plus university-level ones on farming, engineering, and medicine locked a away in a time-capsule for a century post-event.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by ansible »

dtx1 wrote: post #2

I always love these cool cyberdeck style builds but whenever the bug to build my own catches me, I end up realizing i'm just trying to build a really bad notebook.

Yes, these are cool and fun projects, but not something I'd use on a regular basis.

I've bought a few old Chromebooks off of eBay recently (for around $20 USD each), and re-flashed the BIOS so that I could install Debian on them.

The student-oriented Chromebooks are reasonably sturdy, and at that price point, I just don't care if something bad happens to it.

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