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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 07:54:06 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   It would be kind of neat if you could buy literal server appliances.

   Something not unlike a Raspberry Pi, but with better performance and a chassis designed for stacking so you could have several connected.

   It would have a slot for an M.2 stick or 2.5" SATA drive and you'd buy the drives with the software pre-installed. Bigger models would have multiple such slots and would run servers in VMs, and it would just work, with no setup required and automatic unattended updates.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 07:57:07 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      Just picture having a selection of drives pre-installed with software such as Nextcloud, Mastodon, Apache2, etc. Technically speaking the drives could just contain a basic OS image and a web installer. I think I'd prefer to have the full software even if you'd need to upgrade it immediately, though, because there are cases where downloading large amounts of software just to get a device working isn't practical.