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I sit down at the coffee shop. It's so magical... the way it wisps across the room as I pull it out of my pocket. The wind blows and brushes a beautiful brunette woman's hair across her face. She smiles at me. Is that a GPD Micro PC? Yes I say smoothly as she touches my thigh and asks if she can borrow it. I want to email my dad and tell him that I've found the man that shall hold my hand in marriage. A man walks out…
Is there anything similar size which would work as a KVM for a server?
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They've been around for approximately thirteen years, do you really churn through one every 7-9 months?
I owned businesses. I didn't use all of them myself. I do tend to buy The Latest Thing every year or two. And my purchase history of computers is of interest to you because...?
Is there anything similar size which would work as a KVM for a server?
The GPD Pocket 3 has a unique module system, one of which is a KVM/RS-232. It allows you to use its display and keyboard/touchpad to drive a headless system. It's a super versatile and ingenious little machine. I love it to bits.
I have to do my programming remotely, but blink is f/oss and supports mosh.
It also has a secure enclave for keys which is not that common on laptops (and why all of mine have to have Yubikey nanos living permanently in one of their ports).
Tangential, but: > I’m very vigilant and still a bit freaked out when I carry the Macbook around. Careful in tight spaces! Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall? I've actually found MacBooks to be impressively sturdy. Perhaps I've been lucky. I've dropped my 2016 Intel MBP once while coming out of my car, it hit the pavement on its corner. There was a little dent in the corner, a…
I closed my M1 MBA's screen on a plastic fork right at the base of the hinge, cracked the glass (but why?) nameplate because the hinge was ultra tight with zero clearance between the screen and base when closed (room for error), and a few weeks later pinstripes started appearing on my screen due to electrical damage from the crack.
I wanted to ask the HN community if anyone has tried this kind of handheld pc as a smartphone replacement. It doesn't have to have a sim card slot, my idea was to use a feature-phone with personal hotspot functionality in conjunction with a micro PC. my 2 fears: * despite feature phones normally having very long battery time, this is probably not the case when using personal hotspot - this problem could be eliminated…
It depends what you want to use it for. It doesn't have GPS, or a camera, or NFC, so you won't be using it to navigate, take photos, or pay for things. You also aren't going to have much fun using it to make phone calls, and it won't run Android apps - at least not without a serious investment of effort. It also runs warm, and can only sustain 8 hours or so of screen-on time. That said - yes. Folded, it's almost exac…