• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    That’s a thin client. You can rebrand it however many times you want. I still see em in the ewaste. At the end of the day you can’t remove the computing requirements of running a network stack, a crypto stack, a compression stack, HID, and frame and audio buffering.

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      2 hours ago

      No, it’s a zero client. A thin client has a desktop environment with a limited number of apps. Zero clients are less advanced than a raspberry pi.

      That’s a much different environmental impact than a desktop.

      Source: I used to run VDI for a global company for a living, deploying both thin and zero clients.