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< Any retro devices for browsing the smolweb?

~aftergibson

So actually I have a very old Nook, that I’ve got running Android 2 I think. It’s currently an E-ink dashboard I’ve stuck to the wall that shows the upcoming weather forecast (and high/low tides near me). It doesn’t support any sort of https, so I have it just connecting to a local server running a Python script printing the dashboard, I wonder if I added some interactivity could it be used to browse the smolweb? (Over http of course…)

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~tetris wrote:

I have the same sort of setup on a Kindle 2. Shows weather, org-mode schedule, google calendar, and random motivational messages, produced by a local Pi server.

The calendar is just a chromium screenshot generated via the puppeteer web-automation library, so I think you could do smolweb too that way

~aftergibson wrote:

That’s the great thing about this text only world, I am a rubbish designer but as all I’m dealing with is text, as long as the UI is functional, that’s all it needs!