These small little handy-dandy devices seem to get more and more popular. Anyone here chipped in for a JetKVM yet? Looks and sounds pretty solid. Are there a lot of you that have aquired a nanoKVM?

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    46 minutes ago

    How often are you people screwing things up so badly that your servers aren’t reachable over the network and require keyboard/monitor access? This is basically only ever once for me for the initial OS install, and even then that can be automated away if I had to do it more than once every couple years

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      15 hours ago

      They state the code will be released after the first orders ship, which makes a certain kind of sense given this is a competitive space suddenly.

      Though, I 10000% agree that there’s no reason to take a leap of faith when you can just wait like, uh, a month, and see what they do after release. It’s not like they won’t still be selling these or something.

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      13 hours ago

      Hm, good of you to point out. I hope and assume they will post the code for this as soon as they launch this.

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    Jeff Geerling and Craft Computing have recently reviewer these units on YouTube and they’re fairly optimistic about them.

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    14 hours ago

    First project created, only want $50k, delivery is basically as soon as the project ends.

    I would be surprised if the backers of this project receive anything.

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      13 hours ago

      I’d be very surprised if this was some sort of sham. At least both Jeff Geerling and Raid Owl have posted about getting these; though like sent to them without them backing them directly.

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        10 hours ago

        I’m not saying it’s a scam necessarily, but the schedule and budget seem optimistic enough to make me question wether the folks running it have any prior experience with manufacturing.

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      While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn’t necessarily immediately discount this one.

      It’s probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling’s video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.