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minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoOLED maybe but small micros are now so cheap and so small that they’re negligible. Battery is probably still the biggest environmental impact.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoOne of those 3 cent one time programmable microcontrollers would be sufficient. Something with enough power to run a web server is just wasteful.
minus-squarebacon_pdp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·6 days agoYou do realize that a 1 cent microcontroller has enough RAM, Flash and processing power to be a web server, correct?
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days agoAnd the term web server doesn’t mean it has to run the whole of AWS. It just means it can deliver some content over http.
minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoYeah, I doubt it’s running more than a couple concurrent connections. Idle web servers take very little resources.
minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoGetting ever closer to smart dust.
OLED maybe but small micros are now so cheap and so small that they’re negligible.
Battery is probably still the biggest environmental impact.
One of those 3 cent one time programmable microcontrollers would be sufficient. Something with enough power to run a web server is just wasteful.
You do realize that a 1 cent microcontroller has enough RAM, Flash and processing power to be a web server, correct?
And the term web server doesn’t mean it has to run the whole of AWS. It just means it can deliver some content over http.
Yeah, I doubt it’s running more than a couple concurrent connections. Idle web servers take very little resources.
Getting ever closer to smart dust.