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

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren’t entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things.

  But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I’ll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.

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• tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters… Guess they found an use for that after all.

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• SeaSgt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Please don’t buy this.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Going back to the dumb terminal days of the 60s & 70s

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now with added surveillance and advertising!

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• maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google calls it a Chromebox.

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And in the 80’s we called them X Terminals.

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    • maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is it like xorg, or why X?

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• Repelle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Humans aren’t mature enough to have an internet. It was a mistake; can we take it back??? Maybe we’re mature enough to have standalone computers… maybe.

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  • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe we’re mature enough to have standalone computers…

    Once we find a way to make them without child labour, sure.

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• Cekan14@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Laughs in Debian

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  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Live USB disk laughing maniacally at the PC

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• QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And so, the technofiefdom begins.

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “not power themselfs” ?

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  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft will determine when the PC needs to be booted up as per your employer’s demands 😆

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a really stupid way to describe thin clients, anyway. Assuming that’s what this is. I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC.

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• MrPnut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)

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• apple_train@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These won’t amount to much, windows 365 is expensive. Companies really only have a use case for these over dedicated hardware for specific use cases that make sense, of which there isn’t a lot vs dedicated computers.

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• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yawn. People complaining about this apparently don’t work in IT and don’t know that thin clients which connect to a variety of different VDI solutions are pretty common in lots of different businesses and government agencies.

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• MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For work, this would be great.

  For home, hell nah.

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• FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s crazy

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• KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The best we’ll soon be able to own is workstations. Talk about data manipulation.

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