I took the screen off my old dell laptop and turned it into a mini blade server with built in UPS. It ran for years. I have no doubt the battery was knackered by the end.

The only reason I replaced it with a Mac Mini 2012 was because it didn’t support usb3 and 4K video saturated the usb bandwidth.

Now my 2012 runs Ubuntu server + docker for those interested :)

How does the update function work?

I open the web app from my Home Screen, see a notification for an update in settings. Tap update. Takes me back to main page with notification gone.

What exactly is it updating if it’s a web app?

Initially I was like, big deal - your 12v died, it’s happened to us all. Then I realised the complaint was he couldn’t even get in to the car to roll it back out of the way.

Surely if that was the case there should have been some way to get access to the 12v bay to either jump start or replace the battery? How did the engineers get access?

Maybe an oversight with design?

Sort of? https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/use-cases/rdp/ - I have no idea how to do it though.

I’ve had SSH and VNC sessions rendered in web pages with tunnels, but never RDP.

I would prefer to use TailScale (www.tailscale.com) for something like RDP though, much easier to configure / set up and again you’re hiding behind their infrastructure.

Cloudflare tunnels is the way to go for small self hosted content. You’re hiding behind their ddos protection and your IP / location remains hidden from end users.