Hi Dmitriy,
I've added a bit to my presentation about my specific use cases, and my
experiments with thin clients / distributed builds, and remote desktops.
Tug
On 9/4/24 16:04, Dmitriy Korovkin via linux wrote:
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
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