This is a Kobo eReader with a broken screen. It sports a 1GHz ARM processor and 500MB of RAM.
It runs off an SD card and it runs Linux. I can telnet and ssh into it, so I can do whatever I want with this.
What could I use this garbage for, Jow Forums?
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>What could I use this garbage for, Jow Forums?
salvage the sd card I guess
fix the screen and reade comfy mangas?
>garbage
>1ghz 500mb
Apollo computer had 2Mhz clock And 2K ram yet had inputs from many sensors and controlled RCS,and attitude of the spacecraft.
You can run the entire world with optimized software and your Ghz processor.
does it have any sort of i/o? USB ports or something?
Also internal storage?
I can only access it via telnet, ssh or USBnet. I put a 64GB MicroSD card on it, so it has plenty of space.
If I want to transfer files to or from it I can also just copy them to the SD card, since the whole system (kernel, root folder, etc.) is located there.
yeah, but can you plug something in the usb slot "for good"?
My thoughs are with a second wifi you could make yourself a "secure hotspot" so to speak,
something you can use to connect to a public wifi, host a hotspot on it's own with the second card while routing all the traffic through vpn. Just an idea.
Another idea (especially if you don't have a public IP) is to have it running at home 24/7, with either some vpn like ZeroTier one, or even a teamviewer, so you can connect to it and use it to wake-on-lan your "main" computer whenever you want and access it, even from you phone from mcdonalds if you feel like it.
May also serve as an exit node for said zerotier vpn
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Throw it away. It's useless. If you have a tool that you're desperately trying to find uses for, chances are you don't actually need it.
Yes Josh, we get it. A $200 gold plated screwdriver and a cheap piece of shit from Walmart will both accomplish the same tasks. But if you have no screws then you're just a retard with an extra tool you don't need.
This is really interesting. Thanks, user.
>1ghz 500mb
Isnt that just like first raspberry pi?
Web scraper
Ovpn server
If there's a UART/JTAG header you might be able to connect to the real world via a slave microcontroller.
Charge all the way then stab the battery
dedicated dust collector
Replace the screen you brainlet. I did it twice with my klutz brother's Kindle and it works to this day.
How about no.
If you can attach a keyboard, make an e-ink terminal for sshing into other boxes
nvm i'm retarded
make a distcc farm and add this as a node
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Install gentoo ofc
>It sports a 1GHz ARM processor and 500MB of RAM.
so its even less capable than my archaic router
>e-ink screen slow as ass to update
>ssh anywhere
>so slow it feels like being on 56k
Feels good man
Yeah my idea was it would've been pretty slow, but still good enough for basic terminal stuff and extremely comfy at that. Sadly in my ecstasy I totally missed that the screen is broken.
you could.. like.. buy the screen and fix it
just a thought
boooring
First raspberry pi was at most 700mhz.
if it's really low power draw and it's on your network, give it some kind of server task
even if it's just something you can sftp into to ferry files around
given those specs, it sounds like it has the performance of an older raspi, but without any of the convenience (video out, usb in, gpio, ethernet)
world's shittiest seedbox. Fileserver or captive portal for distribution of dolphin porn. Put it in your backpack, run the captive portal with an SSID of "FREE WIFI" and proceed to bombard people with cetacean pornography.
In the early 1990s my whole university ran on hardware 1/10th as powerful, supporting 20,000 users and maybe 4-5k logged in at once.