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This is different (and far less practical than Apple’s approach). This one doesn’t download the OS and store it, it pulls the files from Google drive every time they’re accessed, so it’s incredibly slow by comparison, but is technically running from the cloud. The Apple one downloads everything it needs and stores it, then pulls from that local copy.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I was also adding to the discussion. You commented something it reminded you of, I commented the difference between the two. This may be an important point for those who are not familiar with either of these technologies.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Yeah it’s very common unfortunately. I didn’t intend to undermine your contribution or anything. Sorry for that regardless.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah apparently adding to am the discussion is frowned upon here, my comment chain got derailed by a “joke” because I tried to differentiate between the cloud and a PC to have a discussion….
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So it’s like PXE booting without a permanent local disk. If you have enough RAM, that’s probably fine.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d argue it’s a bit worse than PXE booting, since they talk about having the actual bootloader on a USB stick, whereas the same thing could have been done by having the boot process remote too.
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Yeah I believe it’s loading everything over the net. I haven’t looked super closely into it. I’m not sure what, if any, practical applications there are for this. Seems like it’s just a fun impractical project. I’m here for it. But you’re right about it being terrifying lol.