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I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port.
All peripherals connect over bluetooth, and power will have to come from the hdmi port.
This is cool but phones have fit in my pocket for years. It's all about the form factor if you want a PC. I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port. All peripherals connect over bluetooth, and power will have to come from the hdmi port.
This is cool but phones have fit in my pocket for years. It's all about the form factor if you want a PC. I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port. All peripherals connect over bluetooth, and power will have to come from the hdmi port.
Google intel compute stick for one that already exists.
The 11 inch macbook air used to get over 11 hours, and netbooks used to get like at least 4 hours.
I love seeing these projects but can't imagine what in the world I'd do with one of these devices. Small computers that don't benefit from the mobile UX tradeoffs and don't quite have keyboards or screens or a hinge to support putting it down and typing on it. They're cute though. If you had one, what would you be doing with it?
I've seen good hardware level network engineers using small form factor portables as isolated "known setup" units for running packet filters, malware scans, diagnostic scripts etc against racked units in situ.
I loaded up an RPi with arch, popped a thumb drive on there and created some startup scripts. Once the RPi booted up it just performed a rolling packet monitor. Once I was alerted about a disruption I went and grabbed the thumb drive. I found a Modbus TCP driver bug.
What’s even better is I ended up ‘packaging’ it in an enclosure and was able to utilize it in a lot of scenarios. I’ve been using it over the past 2 years.
Edit: in the industrial world equipment like this is not in racks/server rooms. They are usually located in panels that have no external networking (security). When I ‘grabbed’ that means traveling to the site and literally taking the drive.
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I've seen good hardware level network engineers using small form factor portables as isolated "known setup" units for running packet filters, malware scans, diagnostic scripts etc against racked units in situ.
I was troubleshooting a very irregular network interruption between two industrial controllers (AB PLC and a DCS). For those who do not work in industrial automation communication between assets is essential and some disruptions can be quite costly depending on the industry/product being made. That can be true of even relatively minimal disruptions. I loaded up an RPi with arch, popped a thumb drive on there and crea…
A rack by any other name . . . :-)
TBH I was thinking of not just the trad. IT server room racks but also of cramped radio comms "cupboards" by towers and of production circuit | industrial control access panels / locations in both indoor "warehouse" production and outdoor mineral processing circuits ..
Always handy to have a small known general purpose computer with ports, scripts, utilities, etc when you're tracking down the weird bug of the day.
https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...
This computer has so many memes rolled into into one it's ridiculous, ortholinear, trackball, ultra-modular, FOSS, 7" clamshell.
This is cool but phones have fit in my pocket for years. It's all about the form factor if you want a PC. I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port. All peripherals connect over bluetooth, and power will have to come from the hdmi port.