[k8svet]

Random memory/story, when I was a junior in highschool (so 2007), my friend and I coverted two old laptops to picture frames, using shallow shadow boxes.

I took Dillo? Linux, and customized the squashfs (or whatever it was at the time) to run a wifi setup script from outside the squashfs that configured wifi, connected as a samba to their desktop computer with photos in folders, and then would loop through photos with, feh, I think? Definitely my first real use of Linux and probably another pivotal moment in setting me up for the 16 years since then.

Thing ran up until a few years ago when the home wifi got replaced with Unifi and the house got re-decorated. I think I even took the CF drive (because yes, I even got CF->IDE adapters) out and imaged it about 6 months ago, for nostalgia's sake. Anyway, this is a super neat project - re-used hardware, eink, and I'm getting to start to really appreciate glancing around and thinking of friends/memories. And though I know I'd end up giving it away if I built one, I am regretting giving away my old Kindle now!

[garrickvanburen]

A couple years ago, I did this with an old Chromebook.