I love the concept of SoulPad
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Tbh, that’s pretty much what it looks like, the only “innovation “ there appears to be also glueing vmware on top.
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Ah knoppix... That takes me back. Think I still have a cd with it around here somewhere.
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The "advantage" compared to a simple Linux USB is that it saves the exact state of the VM I guess.
Meh, I'd rather open the applications I need again (or let my DE restore them) than running a VM just for that reason.
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Kinds reminds me of digimon,megaman and other old digital/cyber focused cartoons, everyone kinda had their own os that they went around plugging into public computers.
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Yeah it sounds closer to dex, where you cary around the os, but it fits any hardware in the ideal world for it, letting you use your pc anywhere with varying specs and an automatically adjusting frontend based on the hardware.
For those that dont use dex it gives you a desktop mode when you plug you phone into a monitor and attach a keyboard and mouse. Android may be adding some kind of desktop linux mode in the future.The soulpad way youd carry around an ssd that you plugin to whatever hardware you're using, im imagining by 2025 itd be either more bricky phones that also function as your computerdrive or ppl would still have small phones plus a wallet sized ssd. Prob a fashion accesory wearable if it actually was a thing lol
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I was more thinking if it kept evolving it would be like dex but you actually have access to pc hardware when connected to a pc, not just desktop ui when connected to a monitor.
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I definitely read "soul"pad and got scifi level delusional
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Wouldn't it be kind of insecure to be plugging your private data into public places?
In theory, the public terminals could very well have their own OS set up just so they can run some keylogging or recording of everything that goes through the peripherals, including the screen, without the plugged OS being able to know, right?
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Layer 8, next question.
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How can DE restore application?
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Yes. I used to use Knoppix. It was cutting edge for the time. Similar in concept to immutable distros today that allow you have some mutable data storage.
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I have bootable arch usb but there's a problem with bios/uefi compatibility
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You would have your own personal antivirus/virus ai that battles others to get stronger, if you lose they get your data lol
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I think thats what megaman was in one of the cartoons, they would send him in to fight viruses
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I'm not sure how KDE does it but on X11 it had some form of session restore https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-desktop/kcontrol/kcmsmserver/index.html
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reminds me of Andromium. I thought that was a neat idea, but never tried it. The last time I played with gnome mobile on a pinephone, it seemed to be getting to a point where it could probably be used for something like this. It adjusted to whatever size screen it was running on. It also looked nice on the pinetab, but really need better hardware.
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This kind of reminds of the BlackDog:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackDogIt was a small computer that easily fit in a pocket and only had a single USB port. That was connected to a computer which powered it, and it connected as a virtual CD-ROM drive.
On that was an xming X11 server. The BlackDog ran your applications outputted through it. The applications it ran could also access the Internet through the host computer.
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Doesn't that work with just a big USB stick?
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But it's not something the plugged OS can do anything about, because the malware is not running on it.
It's more of a hardware level attack. You'd need a person to physically rip out and bridge the circuitry in the keyboard/monitor. -
But the virus and Megaman would be part of the same software system/universe. What I'm arguing is that there are 2 separate systems, one is the one where Megaman is plugged, and the other one is one that has read/write access to all memories and inputs/outputs of the first, without the first being able to tell.
So.. Megaman would connect and see no problem (or worse.. see a problem that is not real just to keep him distracted) while the other alternate OS would be analyzing all Megaman is doing, and possibly even transmitting his actions in a modified way so that it serves a different purpose.
