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The goal is to desensitize the general population into accepting thin clients

Shame on you, because Im in the thin client Hype for 2 years now

My backup PC and media center both run on 2012 thin Clients running Debian, they are really cheap, dont have any moving parts, draw 15w at most, and are Really space efficient

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Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Define thin client please

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- Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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phx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah PXE boot has been a thing for decades, and with network speeds going from 10/100, gigabit, and now potentially 5-10gbit it’s pretty viable for home environments. It’s great for common libraries, and mine has an emulator plus a bunch of GoG etc games which I’ve been tinkering to make run nicely.

My preference though is still “thick” clients which use the network for boot and OS/storage, but still have their own CPU and RAM.

Other than storage and networking, the server side requirements aren’t huge. My plan is to make a portable environment which people can patch into and play classic games together.

(If anyone has experience with OpenSpy and getting it to work sans-Internet I’d love to pick your brain, as I really want to get BF2142 and other classics running fully without internet)

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