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Current Project: MK802 Mini-PC

If you've any ideas or comments, that'd be great! #swhack on freenode 

Why?

• Inexpensive to acquire and maintain, suitable for homes and small businesses
• Vs. PCs: inexpensive to run 24/7 at ~4W, and quiet
• Vs. the cloud: proximity for file transfer, control over software, and data not subject to capture or inspection by foreign governments
• Cf. the many other mini-pc variants (there are several tens available) support from Allwinner and developers is the most enthusiastic. The next most interesting device, for me, would be an open one, with the A31 processor
• It's small, tidy, neat, and fun!

Actually useful? Yes...

As at 22/06/13 I've had uptime of 110 days, until I made a mistake, and subsequent uptime of 25 days, with an old USB powered external hard drive configured with some swap, on Debian sid and running the following:

• Weechat - runs 24/7 so I don't need a bouncer, the relay client for Android provides the best mobile experience I can imagine
• BtSync - images transferred to the mini-pc from, say, Android by sftp are backed up to other machines when they come out of suspend
• Mosh - useful for access to the mini-pc when on the move (Android client)
• OpenResty - used for serving images transferred to the device by sftp
• Tiny Tiny RSS - has worked almost flawlessly so far, the Android client being as good as GReader (install hints for Debian sid)
• No-IP.com updater provides dynamic dns for access to TT-RSS, Weechat, other servers