Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wonder if using a whole computer for in the spirit of a single purpose device. Seems a bit overkill.

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is the objective to “reclaim control over your technology”, or is it to be a single purpose device? I can think of a lot of single purpose devices loaded with subscriptions and telemetry, and just as many general purpose computing platforms without that crap that let you be in control.

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  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pi Zero is barely a ‘whole computer’ – that phrase overestates the situation

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah well, a Pi Zero I suppose is less overkill.

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      • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There was some science-fiction writer in the mid 20th century argued that each household would have one humanoid robot. Because, he said, if you have a robot vacuum and a robot lawnmower etc. you’d need multiple computers, and that’s overkill.

        Sounds silly in hindsight because a ‘whole computer’ turned out to be cheap and small, and it’s not a big deal to have multiple.

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• Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Similarly - PiHole

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