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  • You could buy a remote KVM device. The serial port of your target box connects to that and the KVM connects to the internet. With that, you can watch the device during boot and access the console remotely.

    I used to run a web hosting business and we used those. I have not shopped for a personal one, but surely there must be old and used ones for sale.

    Bonus: our hosting business ran on FreeBSD so I can confirm there was no problem there. Because it’s a serial connection no OS support is required.











  • markstos@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSelf-hosted weather app?
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    1 year ago

    Are you planning to run your own weather station to collect the wind speed, air pressure, precipitation, temperature and so forth?

    At least historically, supercomputers were used for weather forecasting, as it’s rather complex to calculate. I’m not it would be worth it to apply all that computing power to privately generate local weather forecasts.






  • Originally, ChromeOS was the Chrome browser with just enough code to boot to and take care of other essential OS functions. Like, the system settings and browser settings were practically merged.

    The author is alluding to more recent efforts to untangle and separate ChromeOS from the Chrome browser. I believe the goal is for the Chrome browser on ChromeOS to be essentially the same as other Linux browser builds.

    So these days ChromeOS is structured more like other Linux distros, with a huge difference being how locked down it is.