I am glad I am not the only one. I run have been running arch on a "experiment" VPS for ~11 years now. Been `pacman -Syu` ing every month :)

I was thinking of hasura.io while reading the page only to find this is a hasura project - Keep up the great work

Haha :) This is the first of a few projects open-sourced out of the Hasura platform

.sh and .ac are also run by the same folks - looks like there are issues with those tlds as well.

For a long time, I struggled with a similar view. The lines for this are blurring very fast though. Example - Amazon's kindle is more or less a single purpose system - but runs linux, lasts for days on battery, has good RAM and a relatively powerful processor.

One useful metric is how far something is along the "general purpose computer - appliance" continuum. Something can be quite powerful with lots of resources, and still function as an appliance that people do a relatively restricted set of things with.

Yes - they would have to be built with ARM base images.

You must have a lot of ESP8266 to deplete ~256^3 ips.

My home router can't really do more than about 100ish IPs.

Sounds more like time to get a new router vs changing all of your internal home network to ipv6

How is switching to IPv6 going to fix that problem?

The router won't have to hold a NAT table for ipv6 devices, just relay router announcements.

Maybe ipv6 slaac would help compared to dhcp. Not by much, but maybe a bit

Great product - Will be really handy in BLE firmware development as well I guess. Somehow I thought this was an implementation of "IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart" though :)

Thanks!

I had a real struggle with the title as I'm finding it difficult to articulate what the product is...

Linked but not linked to the internet by default :)

But it does -> http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/ESP8266-based-WiFi-module-F... :)

You're right, but apparently there are caveats:

http://hackaday.com/2014/12/17/esp-gets-fcc-and-ce/

"This announcement does come with a few caveats: the chipset is certified, not the module. Each version of the module must be certified by itself, and there are versions that will never be certified by the FCC. Right now, we’re looking at the ESP8266-06, -07, -08, and -12 modules – the ones with a metal shield – as being the only ones that could potentially pass an FCC cert."

FWIW - India has one of the best money transfer infrastructures [IMPS/NEFT/RTGS]. IMPS is my favourite - it taps into the ATM machine backbone and enables 24x7 instant payments at almost zero cost [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Payment_Service ]. The problem is more than the lack of infrastructure - Most folks are a bit apprehensive about using Cards or Online banking capabilities for fear of theft.