Technology

I'm so sick of Microsoft I actually installed Fedora KDE Plasma.

Genuinely, it's nicer than windows lol

The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying, but overall it works really well, has more features and looks slick.

Ain't ever going back.

Fucking terminals. These are NOT PCs, this are TERMINALS! 1!!

Ah yes, it's around the time for thin clients of this cycle.

And when your Internet goes down, you can't even work locally.

Genius!

I'm sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.

What could possibly go wrong?

Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.

I'm really worried about this, I don't think it'll become a universal standard by all means but I can see Microslop forcing this onto people as a kinda next step from all the hardware limitation bs.

They would finally have total control over your OS.

You will own nothing and you will be happy!

What in the name is the flying spaghetti monster is Windows 365? An even less private version of windows that won't work is you don't have internet?

I feel bad for the poor bastards that will certainly have these forced on them at the office or at school.

I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.

They are all such cunts!

Back in 2008-2009 I shared this crazy idea with my peers that Microsoft was moving towards an "always connected" OS that would probably be hosted on their servers, because you can make more money charging someone for access to their data than charging them once for their OS.

they laughed it off and told me that nobody would fall for that.

....who's laughing now assholes?

This is horrifying in that it signals a concerted push towards getting consumers on cloud computing.

But in terms of self hosting your own compute these actually look great, especially if they’re subsidized to get you into a subscription fee. As long as we can break into the bootloader and run Linux on these, they look to be very capable and efficient small compute boxes. 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports, DDR5 memory, and Intel N series processors?

Self hosters and homelabbers will be licking their lips.

Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.

It is a Thinnet client. They have been around for at least 26 years.

Someone will install Linux on them and use them as a cheap barebones computer. I'm sure with a bit of jiggery-pokery they can be repurposed to something useful.

Please don’t buy this.

So a thin client?

Fuck you MS

If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.

It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.

If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren't entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things.

But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I'll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.

Obviously these are going to be used for corporate or organizational settings, as it what was then with the so-called Network Computer thin clients which Oracle tried promoting but flopped.

yeah Im so glad I finally went to linux for my personal computing. Really should have done it about a decade earlier.

Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.