On 2026 May 31 (Sun) at 16:12:25 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Pappacoda wrote: :On Sun May 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM CEST, Stuart Henderson wrote: :> On 2026-05-30, Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote: :> > Not sure how it's gonna interact with updates though. :> :> Poorly. :> :> An SSD in an M.2 to IDE adapter would probably be a good and fairly :> inexpensive upgrade if they're like to see many updates.. : :These are small thin clients which have been donated from a bank to the local :hacklab I partecipate in, and us buying a bunch of adapters and storage :drives is less ideal than having stuff break. : :My idea with them is to organize a workshop showing off what one can achieve :with OpenBSD base and really poor hardware, ending with giving the PCs away :to people who participate. : :Individuals can then add more storage space if they want to, and it's :definitely gonna be my recommendation. : :If this was for a long term home lab your suggestion would be of course :sensible. For something like this, I guess this botch is acceptable? :
This feels like you are going to give all of the new users a very bad time :(. You really do need to solve the storage issue, because it's going to be a real problem. -peter
