• village604@adultswim.fan
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    9 hours ago

    Remote computing makes sense from an environmental perspective. There would be a drastic reduction in e-waste if people were using zero clients instead of desktops.

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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know how well that holds. I’m not under the impression that much cloud hardware can be it is reused. Also thin clients tend to have short lifecycles

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        6 hours ago

        I said zero client, not thin client. A zero client is basically just a device that connects to remote computing, not unlike a dedicated streaming device.

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          5 hours ago

          OnLive’s zero-client console wishes to have a word with you.

          Oh wait, it can’t. It’s dead.

          Even zero clients become outdated, with the additional detriment of being 100% dependent on the service they are connected to.