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This might be a good use case for a RasPi for web browsing. If it gets taken, you have not lost much money. You could PXE boot and have the OS run from ram,
by LinuxBender 7y ago
This might be a good use case for a RasPi for web browsing. If it gets taken, you have not lost much money. You could PXE boot and have the OS run from ram, so you don't even need a hard drive. It really should not use much power. The PXE boot device could just be a generic cheap consumer NAS. If you need to save a file, just https post or sftp it to the cloud somewhere.
- alasdair_ 7y agoThe police will take everything in your home that even tangentially looks like a computer. Cds, usb sticks, cameras, networking equipment, even things like monitors that can’t store any data have all been taken. The reason seems to be, in part, that they often get to keep the stuff as part of any plea deal and can, and do, use it to equip their computer crime labs with better equipment. This has been happening since the operation Sundevil days where it was documented in Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown.
- LinuxBender 7y agoThat's a good point. So maybe all they should find is a cheap RasPi and the cheapest NAS and wifi AP you can find.
- geek_at 7y agohave you ever surfed the web on a Pi? even a 4.. it's not fun :D
- alex7o 7y agoThere is an embedded version of the webkit browser that has hardware acceleration on the pi and works prety well.
- LinuxBender 7y agoI have, but I also tend to not visit sites that have a lot of bloat. El Reg and Scientific American are about the most bloated site I visit and I only pull them up once a day.