Would’ve loved to gotten one of those. But the power consumption of a Xeon is a bit higher than I’d like. This was a nice to have, not need to. It was a Christmas gift from my wife 🥰
Exactly, it isn’t a replacement. It is redundancy in the form of a screen with keyboard and mouse directly connected, but accessibly from remote (my couch). It is far from my primary interface with the server.
It’s part of my PiKVM-kit. https://geekworm.com/products/pikvm-a8
It’s also PoE which is very nice.
I haven’t dared summed it up yet. It’s been purchased over a stretch of time. Guesstimating to around €3000.
I mean, it’s brilliant!
Seems to be the case for Androids with USB PD also is my point. https://youtu.be/piYf4gDthjY?si=DzFm6Z9AtfreDF-q
Isn’t it just USB-C PD? I think they do the same with Androids that support it.
As a Swede, this looks like a sad bun from a gas station.
Yeah, sure! Let me tell the tale of W3C and WHATWG.
The EU requirement isn’t actually USB-C. It’s whatever USB-IF says is the standard connector. So if USB-C gen2x2 (or wherever they will call it) comes out, that will be what everyone has to implement.
The problem would arise when USB-IF stops being the de-facto innovation driver for peripheral interconnection.
Relaying sensitive information over your own wires are a lot more secure then a privately owned service from a foreign country. It’s just a lot more cumbersome.