[omneity]

I feel like a modern version of this with a small LLM and a vectorized wikipedia, maybe even TTS, would make for a very interesting offline device.

Humanity’s knowledge in a box, or as the Internet Box as the IT Crowd called it.

[eternityforest]

The hardware is there, with stuff like: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck

i think there might be room for another class of less-powerful, offline-first but still connectable, app-capable, long battery life devices.

[omneity]

This is excellent, I looked for something like this a few years back to explore what a minimalistic connected computing stack could be, and the only options were dead kickstarters or hacking something from blackberries or nokia c3s with hit or miss results.

Thank you for the link, bookmarked! Might explore this again some time soon.

[eternityforest]

The other one I know of is the Cardputer: https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/10/14/m5stack-cardputer-a-...

And the various Gameboy clones like the Odroid Go.

I've been really wanting to do something with this kind of thing for a while... but I'm not really sure what, just that I want it to work with ESPHome somehow.