[TUHS] The death of general purpose computers, was - AIX moved into maintainance mode

[segaloco via TUHS]

If that means I don't have the whole jumble of other problems I'd have with owning a traditional smartphone, I can deal with actually turning it on and off with a full boot cycle.  Frankly the "always on" kinda disturbs me, so just one more thing I get better control of.

Not to drift the conversation too much though, towards the end of general purpose computing, I like that idea too because the particular single board I have in mind (a RISC-V one I've got) also has a traditional HDMI port and 4 USBs, and ethernet, so if I do it right, I have a mobile that I can also plug in K&M and a monitor to and use at a desk.  Society can pry my desk computing from my cold, dead hands, I've never felt as productive using a computing device in any other context.

- Matt G.

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, January 20th, 2023 at 7:56 AM, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:


> One of the problems that cell phones solve is providing (relatively) instant-on capability. The RasPi processor doesn't have hardware support for this; dunno which others might...
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> -r
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> > On Jan 20, 2023, at 07:51, segaloco via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org wrote:
> > 
> > To be completely honest, I'm considering just building myself a mobile using a single board computer with a small external display. ...