PascalW
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Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the shout out to kindle-dash! <3 Great looking dashboard you have there!
Comment · 3 years ago
Instead of using a cronjob you can put the device into sleep and use the RTC to schedule the next wakeup (see [1]). This takes only very little power, as the device is only turned on for mere seconds and sleeps the remaining time.
[1] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/main/src/dash.sh...
Comment · 3 years ago
Some Kindles can easily be jailbroken [1]. I have two jailbroken Kindle 4 devices and they're still great. Both for reading (though you have to sideload books) and as e-ink dashboards [2]. A Kindle 4 can run for ~ 28 days on a single charge, refreshing the screen every hour.
[1] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle4NTHacking#Jailbreak
Comment · 3 years ago
Have you considered managing DNS records with Terraform or Pulumi? That way you can easily automate (bulk) changes.
Edit: this is possible with Namecheap as well, see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/namecheap/namecheap/....
Comment · 3 years ago
Flutter is no longer the only game in town (using the same approach), new solutions have come that are direct competitors.
Comment · 4 years ago
I've personally only tested it with a Kindle 4 NT. I haven't had any reports of people using this on other Kindle devices, but in theory it should work as long as the device is jailbroken.
Comment · 4 years ago
Highscalability.com was great! I still follow their RSS feed but there's not a lot of new content nowadays. If someone knows a similar resource I'd love to hear about it!
Comment · 4 years ago
Flutter for web is quite rapidly improving in all the areas you mentioned. For right now I think it's already very suitable for highly complex browser applications such as a Figma, Google sheets etc. Load times aren't the best due to a quite hefty WASM download, but for _applications_ that you typically open only a couple of times per day and where you work in for several hours, that initial loading delay really doesn't matter.
Just don't expect to use it for an E-Commerce site or something like that.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm using it myself to run Whatsapp for the Matrix Whatsapp bridge [1] on a VPS.
[1] https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/whatsapp/android-vm-setup.htm...
Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting. I've never been able to make Anbox run in a cloud environment though, don't recall the exact details. But indeed I guess it should be able to work as there's also a commercial offering targeted specifically at cloud setups. https://anbox-cloud.io/
Comment · 4 years ago
Came across this very useful project. It provides Docker images with Android running directly in Docker, without qemu or an emulator. I've never seen this before, all other solutions that I'm aware of either run the Android emulator in Docker or use qemu directly (like Anbox).
Advantage of this is that it's very lightweight and does not require VT-X or AMD-V, ideal for running in cloud environments that typically do not expose this CPU capability.