Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and “oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can’t run your thin client”

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Network booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not, it’s booting from small storage, then it uses remote desktop

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  • Willoughby@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ….good

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• kurmudgeon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not the Dell one, not worth your time or money - only has Intel N-series processor. But the ASUS one may have better internals.

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.

    I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope that future happens, but I’m scared.

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