> neither WiFi nor BT
I understand having WiFi, it'd be great for a small device like this. But why would we need Bluetooth? It only has 32MB of RAM so I doubt you could get any music running on it.
Get off my lawn. With 8MB of RAM you could run Win95 AND a MP3 player.
It really doesn't take much else, you'd need a tcp stack where most of the memory usage is buffers. Maybe 15-30 kb, and you'd need to load some player into mem as well.
There are tiny embedded devices all over that have music running on them. I've seen lightbulbs and light switches that can stream music.
Idk why everyone thinks it takes 500mb to play an MP3. Maybe because the vast majority of compute power these days seems to go to all the shit the app puls in to sell ads and native programs are all just electron apps but it really doesn't have to be like that for most functions of a computer.
ZRAM did magic expanding the RAM to 24MB.
And under text mode you can do lots of things. With a framebuffer, say hello to 420p videos, PDF's and some web pages with images thanks to links -g.
You must use tmux+ash as your "interface", but it works.
I could play music. Not waveforms, but MIDI-level.
- Direct file transfer between devices, with simplicity not comparable to wifi.
- Easy connection to the internet using a mobile phone (likely even the cheapest feature phone).
- Connecting a mouse (and maybe an external keyboard).
- Connecting a 2FA security token (may be important in the SSH terminal capacity).