(IDEA) Simple Dumb Terminal?

[deadpahn]

Hello,

I am looking to turn a few wiis I have lying around the house into cool looking dumb terminals. Since the wii connects to a CRT tv very easy, I thought it would be a cool looking prompt and or terminal for development. I already have a modern linux running on a development server in the home. I don't think striving for features besides this is a good area because of the wiis limitations. HOWEVER a SECURE way to SSH into pre-existing servers I think would be awesome. Ok, maybe allow to boot up a few Nintendo roms while typing. Imagine being able to use Vim/NeoVim and work on your dev projects on a Wii connected to a CRT television. That's what I would like to do. Maybe a few simple features to make this process easier (an mp3 player or something so you can listen to music while coding) but it's not necessary. Just a no fuss dumb terminal would be awesome. I feel like running as "root" by default and stuff like that ain't ideal, nor do I think using old software compatible with Power PC is good either (too many attack vectors).

And when I simple SIMPLE I would like to set up my wiis nand so I hit power, the power on my tv, sit down, ssh into my development server, and start hacking away. I feel like all the steps to get any version of linux running on the wii is annoying.

Anyway, just throwing my idea out there because I would love to use something like this and hopefully in the future people would too.

Let me know if something like this appears :)