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Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

74 pointsby adunklast Saturday at 9:32 PM16 commentsview on HN

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tantalortoday at 2:56 PM

Not to spoil the fun, but is it really still a "Nintendo Wii" if you replace the stock OS?

The identity of a "Nintendo Wii" is the combination of its enclosure, hardware, and software. To take only the enclosure and hardware and keep calling it the same thing is absurd. Where does it end? What if I keep the enclosure, but replace guts with an Xbox? Is it still a "Nintendo Wii"?

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bombcartoday at 12:36 PM

More powerful than a Sun sparkstation 5!

giantrobottoday at 1:13 PM

I appreciate the lack of a reverse proxy in front. While I love the various "website hosted on X" projects they end up in reality just served by CloudFlare. Which is fine since you don't want your C64 or vape pen or whatever to explode. It's just less "hosted on X" and more "single HTML page served by CloudFlare".

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mrweaseltoday at 2:36 PM

Projects like this brings a lot of joy to me, even if it's technically only "I configured NetBSD as a webserver".

phwbikmtoday at 2:05 PM

Gopher. Shake hands. Glad to see you are still hacking

stevefan1999today at 1:54 PM

I wonder what kind of apps you can run. Matrix certainly won't but IRC server? Probably

LoganDarktoday at 2:23 PM

> I was doing this bit using a capture card and Photo Booth on macOS which doesn’t actually support disabling the image-flip on the video feed

I use OBS to monitor my video capture. This essentially lets me use my Mac as a monitor for my headless desktop (which does not have a monitor of its own). Maximum gaming.

Deskflow lets me use my Mac as a keyboard over LAN, too. Beats remote desktop for sure. Especially when gaming.

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Shalomboytoday at 1:28 PM

i used to love httpii for this!