[Deritio]

Imagine Microblades: standard Android phone form factor slide in servers.

Building a home lab k8s cluster by buying something similar to a phone.you could go to a website say if you want a display or not, how much storage and than you have a flat server you just slide into your case.

Then a few years later you buy a stronger one and replace it while the old one is used by someone else.

Like how a Nas manages your disks, k8s could manage your Microblades.

Cheap ha with Autoupgrade capabilities.

I could also start using the outdated Microblades for offshoring when I keep them running at my parents place.

The enclosed could also provide networking and perhaps a 13" slide out display with a display selector.

[rektide]

Given that decent ARM cores are unpurchasable on SBC, and given the abundance of cellphones, this makes hella sense.

totally doable today. not holding my breath but usb4 also includes direct system-to-system connectivity, so these would be Just a Bunch Of Nodes with 40gbit connectivity each. plus the high efficiency & battery backups they already have today.

[tecleandor]

I'm curious about how performant is a cheap phone ($50-150) against a Raspberry Pi thanks to the economics of scale. And it even has a screen! ;)

[wongarsu]

Maybe if you modify it to replace the battery with a heat sink

[antihero]

Autoscale provisions by ordering phones or creating returns on the Amazon website and creating jobs on fiverr to plug/unplug stuff.