@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
Replacing billboards with screens, public info displays, advertising dissplays...
@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
SMIL is a typical underrated format. Wrote an article some time ago on my blog.
It was re-discovered in 2010 for digital signage from IAdea, but:
The industry is super sales-driven.
Technicians have no influence and must defer to marketing. There’s hardly any “nerd” or “maker” scene.
Nearly everyone thinks they have to reinvent the wheel into the next big SaaS thing. Myself included. *lol*
For a few years now, I’ve been taking a different path.
It is specializing on Digital Signage with SMIL. :)
Japp! Porteus Kiosk is a great fit for exactly that kind of locked-down, read-only setup. Solid choice for replacing those XP boxes.
And you nailed the real pain point: VNC just doesn't scale past a handful of machines.
Once you're managing dozens, you need management functions that run centrally from the CMS, reboot, update, status, not logging into each device one by one. That's where remote-desktop tools make things complicated.
Interesting. What hardware did you use?
In 2009 it was mostly x86 PCs, which run Linux fine since decades.
My research focused more on cheap and efficient ARM devices, where we now have far more alternatives with free drivers than back then.
@eager_eagle
Yes, against claud vampires.
First it was the idea of naming a set of apps after herbs I like: thyme, basil, oregano, cannabis...
Like apple did with early osx systems ( Pathet,, Leopard, Lion...) . And the browser was "the" Safari.
But after writing basil-proxy I realized there is already a proxy with this name and the I stucked on garlic.
And honestly; Who would trust a sensimilla- player, haze-launcher, kush-hub and bong-signage? 😂