Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday
by yzhou on Sunday April 20, 2014 @01:39PM
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Here's what I want: A cheap text ssh terminal with wifi,or cellular, nice keyboard hardware, with extremely long battery life (or solar powered), which i can just throw it in my car and forget it. Whenever I am away of my computer I can always log in to my cloud server and write codes or do some quick fixes.
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This should be possible with a Kindle. The basic Kindle costs $50 or so. And it is a fork of Android. And has a month of battery life. There are some Kindle-roots [Search "root a kindle"]. Would something like this work for you? The keyboard will still be the kindle-keyboard.
The other option is a cheap ipad with a bluetooth keyboard. If you turn off all the unnecessary apps and notifications and put it on airplane mode - it should last a couple of weeks. You turn it on only when you need it. You will still need to get an ssh app [many available].
The basic Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite don't use Android. It's only the higher end models like Kindle Fire that use the Android fork.
Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday
by lesterbuck on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:06PM
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At least one developer dumped his MacBook and switched to an iPad + Linode server for at least a year:
http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...
I have been wondering if Chromebooks could be useful for this purpose...
Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday
by hayksaakian on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:14PM
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Could you use a (smart) phone?
Most modern smartphones do not hace physical keyboard, and my Kindle has spoiled me to think that anything less than a month is not “long battery life”.