Hi Dmitriy
On 9/4/24 14:03, Dmitriy Korovkin via linux wrote:
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Scott Murphy via linux wrote:
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A quick logistical question - might expand a little
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Using a (relatively) cheap laptop as a primary machine
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Tug will have a talk/discussion on his acquisition of a “cheap”
laptop for real work.
I have been running a couple of old comps as X servers of this kind or
another. With much real work done in the clouds, is it a "make a thin client
great again" thing?
Just a new machine at a $500 price point. I also use thin clients,
remote desktops, distributed builds (and Gentoo), but I have found that
"new battery for old hardware" really doesn't make much economic sense.
I tried the same with a 1Gb single core x86 notebook, and running X
(formally known as X) apps was painfully slow, even with a custom gentoo
build.
As for saving the planet, I've not attempted the calculation of
constantly charging a dying battery on an inefficient 10 year old
notebook vs buying a new Raspberry Pi, or indeed the new HP laptop I
ended up getting.
My talk is really just a starting point, and I'm sure it will go in
whatever direction others want to take it. I'd be interested in hearing
other experiences of "make a thin client great again", especially if I
can own my own cloud.
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Owning your lighting (not lightning)
o
Scott will have a short talk on converting a lamp to an IoT
device without sending info to the cloud.
Have been doing this stuff for couple of years. Wiz2MQTT is opensourced:
https://gitlab.com/dnkorovkin/wiz2mqtt The similar ble2mqtt for BLE devices
was it's predecessor and not well designed, so I decided to keep it at home.
I remember your talk, and acquired a discarded govee light recently, and
have had your project on my todo list for a while. But... I'm moving
home at the moment, which partly prompted the setting up a new stand
alone laptop so I could survive without the cloud, and not have to
remember where anything was packed!
Tug
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Scott Murphy
scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com
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