Decades ago I started thinking about an off-grid home for my old age. Of course it would need a computer. ARM computers were new back then but the idea stuck and has followed me through the years.
This year I reached the milestone of running Linux (another idea picked up in the '90s) on not one, but two single board Arm computers. Yes, having redundancy was yet another idea picked up during the journey…
The two single board computers are almost identical Radxa Rock 5B units built into minimalist passively cooled cases. Tumbleweed boots from NVMe SSDs, has hardware-accelerated graphics and modest power needs.
So here at the computing milestone I simply want to say thank you for helping me reach and troubleshoot it.
The other components are almost ready to be implemented but I needed the (now stable) twins to work out the details. That is why this milestone is so important to me.
The coming year, 2026, seems to become an interesting one.
See you there.