Mastodawn

@alcea @Codeberg @gitea @forgejo I'd see the basic point (aside of Codeberg) of Gitea/Gogs/Forgejo in the fact that you just self-host those things. Gogs/Gitea used to be Raspberry-Pi capable for average use. Grab what calls itself #thinclient these days and throw it on there, that'll get you more bang/W and less hassle updating.

13 Dec 30

Microsoft’s WebTV is Being Revived by Fans https://hackaday.com/2025/12/30/microsofts-webtv-is-being-revived-by-fans/
#Retrocomputing #DreamPi #Modem #Thinclient #WebTV

Microsoft’s WebTV Is Being Revived By Fans

During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting on…

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Schenkl | 🏳️‍🌈🦄Dec 25

Morgen zu Kaffee und Plätzchen eingeladen worden...

Also muss ich heute noch nen #ThinClient mit #HomeAssistant installieren um den verreckten Pi zu ersetzen...

UniversalBit Dec 10

Say hello to our official mascot, Bitto! 👋

The GitHub project streamlines the creation of Thin Client-Based Digital Workspaces and the configuration of High Availability (HA) clusters. Bitto is here to ensure stability and resilience!

Discover the project and join the community: https://github.com/universalbit-dev/HArmadillium/tree/main

#HArmadillium #HighAvailability #Bitto #ThinClient

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φ Dec 6

#cloudnative #devops #thinclient

Michael W. aus K.Dec 5

#Windows10 oder #endOf10 ist ein Glücksfall für mich.
Habe mir für 80€ einen intakten #MiniPC (#ThinClient) gekauft.
Nicht von privat sondern gewerblich über einen Händler.

i3, 6gen, Stromspar CPU
256GB SSD
8GB Arbeitsspeicher
3x DisplayPort

Werde ein #Linux drauf installieren.
Wahrscheinlich läuft er so noch ein paar Jahre.

@hellomiakoda depends.

I can run @torproject / #TorBrowser on @tails_live / @tails / #Tails on a hp t620 #ThinClient with 4GB RAM, GX-217GA CPU and shared memory iGPU!

Kevin Karhan

Nov 22

I really am pissed about #hp right now.

Cuz I got to service an #t520 #ThinClient - nothing fancy but still.

I want to restore the #WindowsEmbeddedStandard7 on it because the previous owner didn't and it's kinda useless without admin privilegues.
So I checked on the hp website and found that they "serial-wall" the access to any #WES7 images (propably to appease #Microsoft) behind a prompt to enter the device's serial number.
Fortunately, that device was sold & shipped with WES7 and even has a license key, so I enter the one from the devices's label and get told "Serial Number Invalid".
I boot the device into it's UEFI to verify things and take a photo of the Serial # displayed there (which is the same but just to be shure I retried.
HP still claims the serial # is invalid, and since they won't provide support without a valid serial #, I'm really pissed.

Anyone else had this problem?

Is there any way to unfuck this mess??

Cuz I'm pretty shure no reasonable lawyer would take on a case for hardware that sells for €20 on eNay and is 11+ years old by now.

Also whoever decided that #WindowsEmbedded should be #OEMwalled is the reason why noone want to use that mess...
At least #Linux #distros don't do that shite...

#Windows #Embedded #shitshow

Patrick Loftus 🖖

Nov 7

I couldn't sleep last night so I wrote an an extremely simple IOS app allowing an iPhone 17 Pro to display the web browser in the native resolution of an external display.

Then I discovered artificial limitations with keyboard and mouse input on an external display.

I figured having a pocket-able thin-client with wireless input and wearable displays was a solved case based on the technology stack.

I wrote a perhaps snarky feature request in Apple's community support forum - which got removed.

Wrote a nicer version here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256182871

Any advice on next steps?

#apple #displayport #thinclient #artificialLimitationsForNoGoodReasons