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> Asshole edition: "What kind of deck is this? It looks like...like a 50-gallon barrel of whiskey with several ammo crates riveted to the sides."

current cpu-mode is irrelevant. pictures are reference meant to inspire, nothing more.


> Limit on peripherals? Because a stack of microSD cards being available or not changes how much ARM I want to do. I'm gonna assume that I can get microSD cards by the pound with this unlimited budget, plus as many 18650s as I can eat. (Let's say a soldering kit and a solar panel, too.) Assuming we're talking portables only.

narrowed spec to portables only, yes. in collapse you won't have desk with vape rig, 17 monitors, and cans of rockstar.

assume 18650+sd is available, if you know the right person.

> Unimaginitively, I think "Pelican case luggable" is a decent form factor.

it's not an art context, do what's practical.

> For the post-apocalypse, redundancy and durability are going to matter a great deal. The MSG has a nice design: https://cyberdeck.cafe/mix/msg . He basically crammed a Pi and a mini-x86 (Core i7 NUC) into the same box. Probably, though, I'd just forego the x86 and emulate it if I run into an x86 emergency, and grab a Turing Pi 2, fill all the CPU slots with Pis, plug some spinning rust into the SATA ports for archival storage, fill up the NVMe slots, leave most of the boards powered off and underclocked most of the time.

now you're speaking yuri's language. apocalypse-cluster-01 engaged. however keep in mind for +2w/node you can have n100-g12 x86 deconstructed. x3 in pelican case will pull ~15w idle, ~40w peak you have options.

msg build is really well-done. you should also look at experiments `n-o-d-e` is doing

> The third image up there, "Patchbox OS", the ultra-wide screen? I haven't seen this machine but I have seen this panel: it's an 8.8" Waveshare 1920x480(!!) panel, and I love those. So cram one of those onto the parts manifest, tack on an extra e-ink display.

the waveshares are great, assume they are still available as well as eink display as the rockets start coming down. act fast!

> Mount a mechanical HHKB and a three-button trackball,

you had me at trackball :elvis:

> get one that doesn't protrude much: Thinkpad mouse device would be great, but the rubber clits wear out periodically and there is no Fry's after the apocalypse. (There is no Fry's now. We're in the post-apocalypse.)

have you considered lenovo thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint? $20 on ebae. i have one for my pelican case, but it's portable lab, not deck

> If I can fit a radio transceiver in there somewhere and some suitable antennas, that would be nearly essential.

you're only limited by your form faktor. small is not always best.

> If we're capped at 72 hours, I think it'd take maybe six, eight hours to transfer my venti arenas, my /home, and my /usr/src onto one of the disks, say I do that in parallel with grabbing all the shit from the CRUX ports repos and slackbuilds.

assume we all saw this coming, and only the truly paranoid got active ahead of the drop. you have access to a dc, cut out middleman.

> When the dremel gets too hot to continue operating it or I'm waiting for some epoxy or resin to set or I have a minute for whatever reason, slurp source code and docs and datasheets for all the chips on all the boards in the thing, and docs for hardware that is likely to survive the apocalypse (because it was either durable or plentiful). It'll take five minutes to get all of Plan 9 copied over, but pulling down the aarch64 binaries and source for everything, that'll take a minute or two.

time management is essential in the end

> All that would be nice, but I'm more or less happy with the DevTerm, so if we're talking "the computer that you take to the desert island" (where the problem is "What's a nice cyberdeck?") instead of "the last computer you will own, maybe the last one you will see" (where the problem is getting as close to luggable supercomputer as possible), I'll just grab a DevTerm. No hinges, that's very nice, low power, lots of connectors. Maybe tack on some accessories: a USB enclosure for a few SSDs, one of those fold-out solar panel/battery combos they sell to hikers, and if I can make a HHKB and external Waveshare panel (IT IS SO WIDE IT IS MESMERIZING) work, then probably throw those in.

it's a thought experiment, not thot experiment. you are limited only by yourself. interpret as you will, but apex scenario is collapse is here, expect no connectivity for a while, possible threat to life and resources, .gov is armed and streetsweeping. full fvcking dystopia.

devterm is nice, i'd be concerned for parts, but you may not have the same concerns or perhaps procured replacements prior to the end.