Raspberry pi can handle a lot of those tasks fine and others slowly. They are dirt cheap and need very little space. You can add usb storage easily.

I would start there until you know what you’re doing and know what you want.

I thought that osx also saw active user count drop? I think it’s people simply don’t need a laptop/desktop at all.

Re DAS: no you can’t connect multiple systems to it. iSCSI and NFS on a SAN or NAS support multiple connections but the OS or app needs to support it.

You should limit your connections to one machine per volume when using iSCSI or nfs. Smb would probably the best for multiple connections.

Cameras.

A camera would work too.

That’s a little interesting because of the old 486sx and the lack of handholding.

I think deploying dos and/or win3.1 with audio and 3d gfx would be interesting due to the lack of memory management and manual hardware config. Windows xp was pretty simple though.

I don’t understand the authors urge to do this.

You already can’t vote if you’re not a citizen. There are voter rolls and you get checked off when you go vote.

This almost certainly will be used to deport people without going through due process.

Why that instead of something easy like a QNap?

If it’s windy you can use it to keep your papers from blowing away.

can’t you use a tablet, phone, or any other pc like your 10 year old laptop running Linux?

Counterpoint: a few small drones with a small amount of explosives targeting civilians over July 4th in every state capital would tank the us economy.

But I still wouldn’t recommend it. I’d give one whole GPU to one VM with PCI passthrough, and let multiple users remote in.

Which is why I’ve made the recommendation I did. Skip virtualization and go straight to remote access.

The apps you list need decent gpu and gpu doesn’t virtualize well. You also don’t run into licensing issues with Windows.

You can create individual accounts on the desktops so they get their own workspace.

Screenconnect, teamviewer, proxypro, vnc, RDP are all remote access solutions. Some work fine through a browser but work better from a chrome app.

I wouldn’t virtualize that type of software you listed though, I’d just give them access to the desktop itself.

Autonomy was hot garbage while HP owned it. Zero improvements to the product stack. I think the original owners bought it back and pushed out an upgrade that made it 10x better.

No. I like my laptop to backup over the internet. I like my phone to use my nas for photos instead of Apple.

Update (one day later):

YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn’t take making noise on socials to get past the ‘AI deny’ process :(

Go forth, and self-host all the things! I’ll post further updates in this issue in my YouTube project.

LAPD is better than it used to be but it’s still full of assholes.

LASD has been worse and probably still is.

Zip drives.