Tbh I think the Sun Ray thin terminals were pretty cool at the time. Not really cloud because it was an enterprise product 20 years ago, so they used servers hosted by the enterprise. But at the time this idea of taking your entire desktop session with me via my employee badge felt pretty cool. Of course only supporting X11 sessions on Solaris meant that nobody outside Sun wanted it though but that’s not really a problem with the concept as such.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This has been tried, and it sucked and failed every time.
setsubyou@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think it would be cool to self host a thin client system for my household. One main server with everything and I can manage it to ensure that it’s working as it should. Thin clients that myself and fam would interact with for regular use.
Actually, I think I just want an easy way to have my pc in another room so I can use it without having to deal with the heat and noise.
Regardless, the important part is that it’s in my house and under my control. The lack of control is why previous thin client scams were scams and sucked.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah but that was before you had billionaires of this size able to manipulate entire markets in this capacity.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
yeah. Brain likes to think that it’s still 2011.