greatcircle's comments

Landley said in one of his talks (I think it was the linked one) that his goal with Toybox was to enable Android devices to function as a Linux-like development environment.

Toybox provides the shell utilities. You can plug in a keyboard and mouse via the USB charging port. You can screencast to a TV via a Chromecast. Somehow you'd need to get a compilation toolchain on there.

It's an interesting idea IMO. For many people an Android device is their only computer... though I'm not aware of anyone doing this for real in the wild?

I installed Windows 10 the other week - it kinda blew my mind how poor the install experience was.

The iso contained files greater than 4GB, which breaks fat32, which I'm sure many people are still using on flash drives. So I had to use an MS cmd-line tool to split the wim files manually and edit the install files. Why doesn't the installer just use smaller archive files?

I wonder how the pilots managed to consult this manual while wearing big bulky astronaut gloves.

There's so much raw data in the manual, I can't imagine they were expected to memorise it all. Though I'm sure you need to have a very good memory to qualify as an SR-71 pilot.

You could build this type of system with more sparsely placed nodes if you used HF communications, at which frequencies the waves reflect off the ionosphere [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave