points by dataflow 10 hours ago | 0 comments
Anyone know where you can buy the hardware of this OpenStick like they did in the post?
[–] LaurensBER 10 hours ago
[–] dataflow 10 hours ago
Oh I see, that sounds like a gamble. Another question if you don't mind - were you worried about security at all? Like what if there's something vulnerable (or worse, backdoored) in there?
[–] LaurensBER 8 hours ago
It's runs a mainline Linux kernel so it's possible to compile everything from source without any issues of you want to be absolutely sure. I haven't done so but I did asked Claude to check for anything suspicious and it did not find anything.
I guess a big advantage of constrained hardware with a minimal surface is that there's not that many places to hide something.
Obviously I would not recommend running this if you're in charge of Cybersecurity for Fort Knox but for a Homelab the risk seems manageable.
[–] mkl 3 hours ago
https://openstick.org/ doesn't sell them directly, but has links to buy them and a lot of info.
[–] dools 8 hours ago
I have about 300 that I need to sell and I have some software that can run a “factory” to flash and restore your Linux distribution while preserving the IMEI.
They are all the same board variant on which the SIM works and have the msm8916 chip.
[–] qmr 6 hours ago
Make them available while this post is up and you'll sell out in days.
[–] singpolyma3 6 hours ago
You have 300 of them and already verified them? Are you starting a store? Can I have some?
[–] dools 5 hours ago
Yep, drop me an email (see bio).
It can be a bit of a gamble (the sellers usually don't specify the exact SOC on the description) but given the price you're not taking that much of a risk.
Worst case scenario you end up with a backup 4G dongle.