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It seems like my decision to run a J5005 based thin client as my rack/network manager PC has come to bite me in the ass. Unifi controller requires mongo 7 or newer, which requires AVX, which the J5005 does not support. Guess I'll just have to move Unifi to a VM on my Proxmox cluster :/

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@mshelton @freedomofpress @eff I did prepare peoples' devices for that in the past.

My suggestions:

0. Never assume you'll have any #HumanRights or #CivilRights. Always assume #TSA staff is looking for a reason to jail, deport, deny entry or shoot one on the spot.

1. Do not have data on them! #CPB will seize any storage media under threat of lethal violence! Use a #ThinClient-like device without any persistent storage. Keep anything important in your head or don't keep it at all.

2. Have someone to setup a #RemoteDesktop for you post-entry and enshure you've got a #SafeWord to indicate you're acting under duress, so they can redirect stuff to a inconspicuous system.

3. Have a #decoy system ready. CPB have full, unrestricted bulk access to all data from companies that are located, do business in or have an office within the #USA as per #CloudAct. So much so that they consider it "suspicious" if one doesn't have an #NSABook account.

4. Make shure all your devices are #clean. Get yourself new throwaway devices and don't trust them if you ever let them out of sight for a second!

5. Test your setup before you travel to the #US on a different system.

6. This applies to every single device from #SimCard to #Laptop. Assume that if authorities plug anything in them, they are irredeemably compromised!

7. Practise proper #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec. Have proper contingencies and emergency contacts in place.

Last night, someone mentioned his ThinkCentre for his homelab. And since then I've been searching the web for different solutions for a homelab, mostly thin clients. There are interesting low-cost offers. One of my favourites at the moment are HP t640 because of their embedded Ryzen CPUs. But as soon as I look for just a small upgrade the price "skyrockets" from 80 Euro for the t640 to 190 Euro for the t740. When looking for new hardware there's currently an offer for the Acemagic K1 with a Ryzen 5 7430U barebones for 210 Euro and with 16GB/512GB for 280 Euro. This CPU has much more power than the older embedded ones while still running with a 15W TDP.

For assessing the difference between CPUs I often resort to cpubenchmark.net: cpubenchmark.net/compare/5991v

www.cpubenchmark.netAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX vs Apple M4 Max 16 [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
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@Sirs0ri np.

I can recommend the "upcycling" & "reuse" route given #ThinClients offer decent performance for a mini server and more often than not are completely fanless, making them excellent at home.

It's not that I don't say any other brand is bad, but those brands have been reliable to me and are known to use reliable & new components and not new-old-stock or "upcycled" chips ripped from older machines and sticks.

  • And since you ain't looking for some "vintage" SD-RAM there's no need to dive into those.
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@drazraeltod Used business computers, a #ThinClient like the #T620 for example, are quite popular as an htpc. You can get them for cheap second hand as entire offices upgrade and liquidate their old models.
Thing is there's no optical drive though. Maybe you're better served by an external optical drive over usb ? Optical drives are definitely less and less common on computers in general, so that will limit your choice

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@fuchsiii @grumpygamer oftentimes said cores ain't even "dedicaded" but shared...

  • In the case of #CyberBunker they literally sold #Nehalem(-EX) hardware to customers (cross referenced by datasheets/specsheets and the fact they never updated the listings in 15+ years!)

"shared core VPS" are a very big mistake, espechally on Hosters like #Hetzner...

  • Ask me how I know!

So OFC said systems are overworked, espechally the convenience-based options where one just shoves on files and tells it to "bake it"...

  • OFC it shouldn't be the responsibility of a #GameDev to #DIY one's own #CI / #CD infrastructure, and I think given the size and complexity of said games it would be overkill to do so.

If feasible, just grab' yourself a decently performing PC/Server/Laptop you can chug in a closet, SSH/RDP onto and use it as "build servant" ("Rechenknecht") to run your builds and then sent a notification once done.

Gamedev MastodonRon Gilbert, Esq. (@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place)My desktop machine can fully rebuild the game in a few minutes. Azure takes 20-30 minutes. I'm sure many of these cloud services are using way over worked VMs. I'll deal with it because I don't want to set up and maintain my own machines for building. I have a game to make and CI build machines isn't where I want to spend any effort.

Looking at some old pictures. Here's an elementary school computer lab I worked with in 2009. We repurposed their older PCs as thin clients, booting up to a central server running Ubuntu LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). Ubuntu 8.04 IIRC.

We did this to all 7 of their schools' computer labs. It was a blast!

#linux#ltsp#ubuntu
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@noblefeu also das mit Farbe ist ne Frage des Panels.

  • Bei #eInk gibt's nur wenige ACeP panels die 7 Farben können.

Wasserdichtigkeit geht notfalls per Hülle (gibt reputable Hersteller die sogar Druckwasserdichtigkeit für's Tauchen garantieren, brsucht halt buttons)...

  • Mensch muss in jedem Falle bei jedem Hersteller und Gerät einzeln nachfragen, ob diese entsprecjende Features haben.

Sowas wie "#ePub-Dateien ohne #DRM von #microSD lesen und anzeigen" sollte jeder halbwegs taugliche #eReader können. Ansonsten ist es allenfalls nen "#ThinClient für geschlossene Systeme" (vgl. #Amazon #Kindle)!

#epub#drm#microsd