On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Tug Williams wrote: > Hi Dmitriy Hi Tug, > > 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. I would be interested to hear about your usecase. As I look around I seem to see thin clients all over the place: old tablet runs as an X server for Raspberry Pi, a Raspberry Pi runs as an X server for the desktop, the desktop runs as an X server for the working computer and so on. May be it's just me though. > > 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! Since then it has grown up a bit. OpenHAB collects temperature/humidity from all over the house, manages lights with the rules that grow quite interesting. Challenges are unavoidable, of course, but the whole construction seems quite stable. > > Tug Regards, -- Dmitriy To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org