Technology

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.

Fucking terminals. These are NOT PCs, this are TERMINALS! 1!!

Please don’t buy this.

You will own nothing and you will be happy!

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.

I'm so sick of Microsoft I actually installed Fedora KDE Plasma.

Genuinely, it's nicer than windows lol

The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying, but overall it works really well, has more features and looks slick.

Ain't ever going back.

Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.

Obviously these are going to be used for corporate or organizational settings, as it what was then with the so-called Network Computer thin clients which Oracle tried promoting but flopped.

For work, this would be great.

For home, hell nah.

Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.

I feel bad for the poor bastards that will certainly have these forced on them at the office or at school.

It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.

Laughs in Debian

Goodbye local Windows, you mean. Except I said goodbye two years ago and never looked back or missed it. Windows does nothing I need, and does it poorly.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still petty enough to hope this effort is a miserable failure, but ultimately I don't care all that much.

Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.

Back in 2008-2009 I shared this crazy idea with my peers that Microsoft was moving towards an "always connected" OS that would probably be hosted on their servers, because you can make more money charging someone for access to their data than charging them once for their OS.

they laughed it off and told me that nobody would fall for that.

....who's laughing now assholes?

I'm really worried about this, I don't think it'll become a universal standard by all means but I can see Microslop forcing this onto people as a kinda next step from all the hardware limitation bs.

They would finally have total control over your OS.

And when your Internet goes down, you can't even work locally.

Genius!

I'm sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.

What could possibly go wrong?

So a thin client?

If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.

This is horrifying in that it signals a concerted push towards getting consumers on cloud computing.

But in terms of self hosting your own compute these actually look great, especially if they’re subsidized to get you into a subscription fee. As long as we can break into the bootloader and run Linux on these, they look to be very capable and efficient small compute boxes. 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports, DDR5 memory, and Intel N series processors?

Self hosters and homelabbers will be licking their lips.

Fuck you MS

Ah yes, it's around the time for thin clients of this cycle.

What in the name is the flying spaghetti monster is Windows 365? An even less private version of windows that won't work is you don't have internet?

"not power themselfs" ?

They are all such cunts!