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When you name-dropped "thin clients" my mind immediately flashed to an MIT Athena style diskless, netbooted env. Every workstation silently running a fanless, u
by ArtWomb 5y ago
When you name-dropped "thin clients" my mind immediately flashed to an MIT Athena style diskless, netbooted env. Every workstation silently running a fanless, ultra low power 8GB RPi4 era board with dual 4K display. Any one can log into any workstation, and have their custom lightweight Qt-based desktop appear. With all necessary dependencies baked in server-side, to support the backing (arm) cpu / gpu / tpu private cloud clusters.
With the surging popularity of no-code / co-pilot / ???, one sort of shudders to imagine the devenv of 2030. Humans taken out of the loop. Everything locked down. Natural language activated. Deep RL generated. To paraphrase Lester Bangs about the demise of rock and roll, computational liberation is in a very dangerous place right now ;)