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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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1. jsheard ◴[] No.45244432[source]
You think a Cortex-M0+ in a disposable vape is wasteful, wait until you see the ones with colour touchscreens and Bluetooth radios. It's probably only a matter of time before they start running Android on them.
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2. malfist ◴[] No.45244469[source]
What's insane is how cheap all those components are. A quadcore processor with ram and memory, WiFi and Bluetooth for pennies at wholesale.

The latest and fastest GPUs might be a marvel of technology, but so is the tech that let's us make and esp32 for almost nothing

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3. ants_everywhere ◴[] No.45244829[source]
Imagine a beowulf cluster of... wait probably not
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5. balder1991 ◴[] No.45247316[source]
I guess at this point it’s safe to assume humanity won’t regress to a time before computers anymore.
6. ta12653421 ◴[] No.45249823[source]
yeah, in 1992 we ran Doom on a 386DX 20Mhz and 320x200 VGA mode :-D

(and it was slooooow and ugly!)

7. marstall ◴[] No.45252362[source]
how long til they have GPT-5 level LLMs?