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Ah, do you feel it too? That need to own some of these, even though you have zero actual use for them.
by alex_suzuki 4y ago
Ah, do you feel it too? That need to own some of these, even though you have zero actual use for them.
- fy20 4y agoI think I could justify the world's most secure and reliable Home Assistant cluster with automatic failover...
- pbronez 4y agoYeah that’s my thought. The main benefit to this is High Availability. You’re not going to get compelling scale-out performance, but you can protect yourself from local hardware failures. Of course, then you have to ask if you need the density. There are lots of ways to put Rpi in a rack.. and this approach gives up Hat compatibility for density. For example, I’m considering a rack of Rpi with hifi berry DACs for a multi-zone audio system. This wouldn’t help me there.
- criddell 4y agoFrankly, the bar for that is pretty low...
- petesergeant 4y agoNothing generates that feeling for me like seeing these things: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1 https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1 I absolutely can't imagine what I'd use it for, and yet, my finger has hovered over "buy" many many times over the last few years
- alex_suzuki 4y agoReminds me of the Psion Series 5 which I owned more than twenty years ago... and even then, had little use for. :^) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5
- petesergeant 4y agoExactly that. I used to thumb through the back pages of Personal Computer World[0] under the covers as a kid looking at the palmtops. I think it's mostly nostalgia 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Computer_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Computer_World
- alex_suzuki 4y agoGood times, good times.
- LanternLight83 4y agoDoesn't look too far off from the Pinephone with it's keyboard
- staindk 4y agoI feel that way about the ClockworkPi consoles [1] There's a 5% chance that I fall madly in love with this thing and go tinker on some project in a coffee shop every weekend... but it's much more likely that I end up almost never using it :| [1] https://www.clockworkpi.com/shop https://www.clockworkpi.com/shop
- sitkack 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto
- Hamuko 4y agoI don't feel like I have zero actual use for them. The amount of Docker containers I have running on my NAS is only ever going up. These could make for a nice, expandable Kubernetes cluster. As for if that's a good use-case is a whole another thing.