Network Computer

Your own computer in the cloud, opened from anything: an iPhone, an iPad, a Mac or any browser. It keeps running when you put the phone away, and everything is where you left it when you come back.

What you get

• A full Linux desktop, streamed live over WebRTC: direct when it can, relayed when it must
• Touch mode for phones and tablets, with the device's own keyboard and a key bar
• Voice with AI: open things, arrange windows, take notes, set reminders, dictate
• Print on the device in your hand, and use its camera as the desk's webcam
• Your files and records in your own object server, also a folder on the desk
• The DBBASIC apps: Writer, Spreadsheet, Slides, Draw, Shell, Webmaster, Porter and Cabinet

What it costs

A 2-core, 4 GB computer is about $0.036 an hour, $24 a month at most, and it can stop itself when nobody is using it. Your desk (files, settings, keys) is a small volume that stays when the computer goes.

Open source

Network Computer is MIT licensed: the host, the rendezvous server, the browser client and the setup scripts at github.com/askrobots/network-computer, the iPhone, iPad and Mac app at github.com/askrobots/network-computer-flutter, and the object server at github.com/askrobots/dbbasic-object-server.

• Getting started: create your desk and connect
• Guides: touch, voice, printing, camera, files
• How it works: what runs where