I wonder why they failed previously 🤔🤔

The Live USB disk laughing maniacally at the PC

It’s a streaming PC. Specs don’t really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz

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

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.

These fuckers themselves have increased the price of PC components and now they have the gall to release this cloud-only PC to “alleviate the problem of the current market scenario”.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?

The OS is fully running on the cloud. You will be given a VM. Everything stays there. You may have to take permission to download a file from the VM onto your local device. You don’t get any choice about telemetry.

“Don’t you guys have internet?”

I might have skipped that cycle. Local always.

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

You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and “oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can’t run your thin client”

I’m not using it even if someone is paying me (unless someone hacks the firmware, but that’s a different story)

I also understand. I am also a Prime subscriber. But I have done it mainly for my family. But I’m trying to move away from it as much as possible.

While I agree with you in theory, that is, the price to offering services is really good, but I know that Amazon is currently burning through money to offer the services JUST SO that they can oust their competitors. So I cannot morally support Amazon.

Landlords: Heyyyy…

That sounds interesting but hyper-specific. But recently, I have switched to buying consumables directly from the producer. Skips the middle man like Amazon.

And unlike with television streaming services there’s very little exclusivity bullshit. You can listen to most anything most anywhere.

If services are on the spectrum of good to enshittified, music is currently in the middle. But don’t know what will happen to them by the end of this year.

That’s actually great. I think that the savings in time alone pays itself. May I ask which state this is?

Even though it would be one way to make Mozilla self-sustainable, it would open a pandora box of different problems. Would free-versions continue receiving security updates? Would access to some websites be locked behind the premium version? It’s a dangerous idea.

“They are paying me money. Should be legit”