I’ve got a few headless servers around the apartment (for normal stuff), and… I’ve gotten real fed up with the headlessness. That is, every five years when something goes critically wrong, I have to hook up a screen to the thing and see what it’s complaining about. (It’s usually “No keyboard detected; press F1 to continue.)
So I have to pull out a monitor from somewhere, and then find the cables, and then find an outlet, and all of that takes (at minimum) half an hour. Especially the “finding an outlet” bit.
So I’ve sworn to find some small screens and just sticky tape them to the machines so that I can spare myself this quinquennālis event.
There’s a lot of 7-9″ HDMI screens out there…
But the problem is that they’re all meant for mounting inside a self-made box/frame of some kind, and that’s not what I’m about here.
So I got this, and…
*sigh*
This 9″ monitor is really a sideways display, so it’s… it’s… Well, OK, I guess I can read “Press F1 to continue” on it anyway. So… mission accomplished?
Can’t somebody just make a normal li’l screen? C’mon.
(And I’m sure all those RAID errors are totally fine.)