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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by DeathArrow on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:07AM (#29140572)
How much retro are we talking? If retro enough we can't use them for any modern use case.

Maybe something like a RISC-V core written to a FPGA by yourself is pretty safe.

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:19AM (#29172334)
You can have both.

* https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki

Combine retro with FPGA as you like(within the constraints of that development board).

Or waste Watts by using software emulation.

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by RalfWausE on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:09PM (#29143020)
It all depends on the one question: What IS your use case?

Mine is as an tutor on an evening college, casual writer and some dabbling into some embedded projects. For THIS use case my (very retro) Atari 520 ST with 4 MB Ram is totally working. Is it nuts? Yup, but i can be sure that no state trojan is monitoring my totally boring behaviour.

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by pphysch on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:07PM (#29145813)
Take this behavior too far and you might just sign up for more monitoring.

"Why does citizen #2743652 have internet/electricity service with no registered devices or online profiles?" *Does deep background check*

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by RalfWausE on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:57AM (#29146449)
Nah, no problem: Just use some cheap tablet for a bit casual time in the "commercinet" (e.g. YouTube)... ;-)
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