[jamesone111] bought a Transcend WifiSD card, presumably for photography, but it may just have been because he heard that they’re actually tiny Linux servers. He read a post about these cards…
  • jwt@programming.dev
    2·
    3 months ago

    Transcend Wifi SD Card Is Was A Tiny Linux Server.

    8 years ago, this article is from 2016. I wonder what progress was made if any, both security wise and performance wise.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    1·
    3 months ago

    Completely crazy. There are many flash devices with a controller on it, so a small computer, but that this thing has wifi is completely mind boggling.

    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
      1·
      3 months ago

      Don’t forget that every recent Intel CPU contains an extra 486-based system on a chip running a stripped-down version of Minix (a predecessor of Linux), to implement the remote management engine.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    Those things are ancient, too. It’s annoying that there are no tiny cheap Linux SBC’s like that, which you can straightforwardly buy.