Comment on Cloud saving huh?

• richie_golds@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know something, I have a weird soft spot for thin clients. They’re so little and compact, but they do ordinary computer things?! Hmm… I think I need to be on the lookout for some to add to my collection so I can force get them to compile Gentoo for three days, or something equally silly. I’ve made a Compaq Deskpro EN run Arch Linux 32, so there’s that.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You probably already know, but for the crowd:

    Usually thin clients are clients that remotely connect into a central server that runs their VM, and the VM actually handles the compute. Like older mainframe and endpoint setups.

    There’s still some minor compute hardware/resources on the thin client itself, but it’ll probably be more lightweight than expected. Maybe equivalent to an early model raspi?

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neat!

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A school i went to around 2010 had something similar

  It was all to connect remotely to a real server that ran windows

  The device on the desktop was just for connecting peripherals, power, ethernet and monitor

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, that’s the PlayStation -1.

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