Live data from Hacker News

DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

clockworkpi.com

11–20 of 171 posts

Re: DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

#11
The flat design would seem to make this even less ergonomic than a laptop (an already low bar). Is this meant to be placed on a desk? The user would basically have to hang their head down to look at the display, which is just in front of their fingers. There is no possible way to maintain a healthy posture without an external display.

Otherwise, the retro hardware aesthetic is cool. Reminds me a bit of the early briefcase-format portable computers. I can't think of any actual use I would have for a thermal printer, but I like the idea of it.

Re: DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev

#15

Looks pretty neat! But what's the point of the thermal printer? Is this supposed to be used as a portable cash register?

I would use it with the adhesive thermal paper for labelling up infrastructure, it sounds like it could make a decent administration machine. An Ethernet jack might be needed though.
Post reply on HN