Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology

• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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