I get the cyberdeck naming, but why is this called a "Recovery Kit"? What's being recovered? Never really talks about use cases. Just a cool way to get online on the go?
From the title alone, my first guess was that it was for hangovers
Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
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#62> I wanted a rugged computer enclosure for my Raspberry Pi, Is this intended towards like a prepper type scenario? Or what is the envisioned use case of a rugged pi? Or just cool factor?
I think portability is the #1 factor. It is sort of a Rpi laptop, with the primary benefit being that it is highly customizable for an intended use case.
The reality is that any scenario that has people relying on this type of thing as a "device of last resort" would also most likely obliterate this thing itself. We are talking about a pretty extreme situation, ruggedized laptops would be more practical. And even if the rugged laptop was $10,000, that's a small price to pay for saving the world.
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#63I 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…
Agreed, I think the doomsday prepper angle makes it seem absurd. But take a step back and this is an INCREDIBLE display of technical capabilities of a single person. It crosses a handful of domains in terms of designing, building, assembling, configuring a Thing. Plus the background detail on component selection. And the writing is tight too.
I build things that roughly resemble this (low volume, custom, solving use cases that are too niche for an industrial offering to be created), for money. I'd hire this guy in a minute to outsource things to or collaborate with, so I see the project as a kind of personal resume.
IMO he should find a specific scenario where something along these lines would be valuable. One I am personally involved in is marine electronics diagnosis. Primarily NMEA2000 networks and the devices on them, and the same devices on Ethernet. It's too much detail to go into, plus I'm on a flight after spending a week in Vegas for a trade show, but with just a little bit of reconfiguration work this could be a Thing that higher end marine electronics techs would really dig. Then I think you could also delve deeper into the considerations put into the design and component selection details.
Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
#64Earlier 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.
It's a little more complicated than that. A long time ago delayed comments actually showed up in the API, leaking their contents early. I reported this to 'dang as it obviously broke the purpose of the feature, and at some point the behavior changed to returning "[delayed]" for a bit instead of the actually contents of the comment. I assume changing things to indicate that the comment wasn't available yet was more work, and this was an easy compromise.
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#65Congrats, you've reinvented the laptop.
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#66This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what modern manufacturing can do when unbridled from the constraints of cost and popular aesthetics.
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#67This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what mo…
The CF-31 is discontinued, it seems? But other models are available.
https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets/computers/lapt...
Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
#68This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what mo…
That's nice but no where near the "coolness" of the Recovery Kit, at first glance it just looks like any other laptop.
Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
#69This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what mo…
The CF-31 is discontinued, it seems? But other models are available. https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets/computers/lapt...
The CF-40 is the replacement, but a zillion CF-31s can be had on eBay, many in pristine condition.
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#70This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what mo…
The CF-31 is discontinued, it seems? But other models are available. https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets/computers/lapt...
wow i just got banned by panasonic - rate limited