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Depends on how. Although I hate how everything is a web page nowadays.
The x86 monopolists and most aarch64 chips have those. Although not always wired and/or enabled correctly. On ARM it's often used to reboot: literally just shutdown without resetting watchdog.
Better a web page than some pile of surveillance capitalist dog shit from an app store....
wait until you hear about web fingerprinting
Even without going full-blown Tor, you have a lot more you can do defensively with a browser than with an app.
All we want is a page that shows various stats about work related things. They refresh every 20 minutes to get the latest info. But the most common point of failure is the network. Wired PIs seem fine, but wireless? Nah.
The PIs are set to fully reboot once a week, but even that doesn't work. At least once a week at least one will just disconnect from the network and not reconnect. I set up something to restart the network service since I found out that's what was failing, but that doesn't fix all of them. Sometimes they'll just completely lock up. So at least once a month someone will have to manually reboot one of them. Most are in easy to reach places, but a few require some OSHA violations to get to.
Oh wow, amazing. Well, the Raspberry Pis all have Broadc*m SOCs. Which means they have relatively good mainline Linux support overall, but that also means Broadc*m Wi-Fi. That's god awful. I've witnessed two laptops with these and on both it's miserable. My lifehack of sorts was making a desktop shortcut and/or shell alias:
sudo rmmod wl && sudo modprobe wl.