Then I actually couldn't set the thing up because of the mini HDMI connection - I have a mini to HDMI cable, but to use my portable screen with it I need mini HDMI to MINI HDMI. Don't get me started on micro HDMI - almost everyone of of those connectors I've bought slips off or breaks in the device. Every time I go to set up an RPi5 I end up having to order another one of those tiny connectors.

Full HDMI for all new devices please. Even if the second display can't be connected.

These days a 175 GBP N95 from a no-name Chinese OEM on Amazon, with 16 GB of RAM and a 500GB SATA SSD is way better value and performance - and importantly - zero fuss - standard setup.

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If you look at https://slicervm.com you'll see he's copied our terminal animation from the top of the website. Took out a monthly subscription for 1x month, cloned the majority of the UX/DX and way the guest agent works.

Had people reach out and flag it to me and I'm like "yes there's a reason for that"..

I think this is just par for the course in an AI slop world. Nothing to stop people imitating, copying, cloning with a good prompt and partial source / detailed docs available.

SlicerVM (est. 2022) is already used for prime time, not "free as in beer" but has pretty reasonable individual plans that include all features. Shares the core code with actuated. (Creator of both speaking here)

Feel free to take a look and see if gives you a little more than the others you mentioned. If not no problems, I realise some folks prefer free stuff.

I hadn't heard of "Sun Ray" until today, but it reminds me a lot of the idea behind Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) - which I used on our school's IT lab back then at a teen. Set up an old i386 machine with the various netbooting daemons. Then on each host - boot from floppy disk, remove disk, insert in next machine until 20 hosts were running from that poor old hard drive.

The nice thing was that the installed OS on each was unaffected, and each machine was running X11 over the network.

Seems like those solutions were optimising for a time where hardware was overly expensive.

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The team say it beats 3.5 27B in numerous benchmarks. But it's still a MoE with 3B active per token, so we'll see!

I hope there's a 3.6 27B coming in short order, or even a 31B.

Gemma 4 looked great, but I've not got it working well with Claude code (Qwen just works) - Gemma 4 _does_ work with opencode though.

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I don't have a horse in this game, but have had pretty reasonable results using SeaweedFS for GitHub Actions caching. RustFS is on my list to test next, and a team mate is quite keen on Garage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542182

The reason I was interested, was adding the new tool to arkade (similar to Brew, but more developer/devops focused - downloads binaries)

The agent found no Arm binaries.. and it seemed like an odd miss for a core tool

https://x.com/alexellisuk/status/2037514629409112346?s=20

Just added this new tool to arkade, along with the existing jq/yq.

No Arm64 for Darwin.. seriously? (Only x86_64 darwin.. it's a "choice")

No Arm64 for Linux?

For Rust tools it's trivial to add these. Do you think you can do that for the next release?

https://github.com/micahkepe/jsongrep/releases/tag/v0.7.0

They'd netboot.. not mount the disks, then download an ISO/IMG and write it directly to the primary boot disk.

If netbooting is a heavy lift, why not boot into a custom initramfs you built, with i.e. dd/curl installed, and flash the disk that way, without mounting / at all? Then kexec/chroot into it?

I'd much prefer this as a way to provision Raspberry Pis.

There are other free/OSS tools around, we're focusing on: long lived sessions - with notes, attention feedback, and efficient keyboard shortcuts. You don't need to be a tmux expert to use it, but there's a built-in tutor just in case you want to take it a bit further.

The mobile experience is one of the things that most other alternatives haven't touched yet - they're native apps or only run on macOS.

The PWA to me feels close to native, but has that portability.

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We also care about security for CI and production workloads (actuated/slicervm). I would have liked to have seen more people becoming aware of this, and taking action.

The CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN exfil is interesting. When our code review both runs, it thinks it has a valid LLM token, but it's a dummy API key that's replaced through MITM on egress. (Not a product, just something we've found very valuable internally.. )

https://blog.alexellis.io/ai-code-review-bot/

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Slicer came about as an internal tool (2022) for rapid customer support where we needed real Linux or Kubernetes clusters, not in a few minutes, but as quickly as possible. It shares a lot of code with actuated (ephemeral, self-hosted CI runners).

It's grown and evolved and gained a Mac version which I mention in the post (with a video demo).

We're seeing fragmentation in the world of sandboxes - both in local or SaaS. We've seen that before with FaaS, and openfaas gave a consolidated UX.

We think slicervm can do the same today.

There are many SaaS and OSS tools in the VM and space. Slicer is a premium experience, that's fast and just works with opinionated defaults and a full Kernel, Ubuntu LTS and systemd.

Free trial available, or individual tier with commercial usage allowed.