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Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 82 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's funny because we switched from thin clients to fat clients some 30-40 years back.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I might have skipped that cycle. Local always.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not if you’re an enterprise. I worked at a company where 80% of our workers (so over 2000) were on thin clients, even remotely. We could manage and upgrade the entire fleet easily from a single point. Ran the servers in house but were able to switch a portion to the cloud if we needed. We were doing that 20+ years ago.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you skipped the cycle of VDI, consider yourself lucky lol

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 6 points 2 weeks ago

They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it's completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

About 15 years ago we started transitioning from on-site computing to cloud. Now we're reversing the trend under the guise of "edge computing".

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Except at the company I work for. We switched from thin clients to laptops (which are used as thin clients) last year.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

You’ll own nothing and be happy.

[–] wendigolibre@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago

Buy all the ram, inflating prices. Sell thin clients and access to computing power/ram. What a scam.