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>We need a personal cloud computer. You know, I actually had this back in ~2011 with the now defunct AlwaysOnPC—it was a really weird service which you could p
by Sirened 4y ago
>We need a personal cloud computer.
You know, I actually had this back in ~2011 with the now defunct AlwaysOnPC—it was a really weird service which you could pay like $30 once for an then get access to a remote desktop on a random Debian install on some server they had. It was kind of a security nightmare in retrospect (only the kernel was used for isolation, i.e. everyone was on the same machines!) and I'm suprised it didn't die sooner from abuse (bad actors doing illegal shit from their servers) but it was amazing for the few years it was a thing. You could just sign in from your phone, tablet, or even a random computer at the library using a little java applet and get access to all your stuff just as you left it. I eventually moved on and just started remoting into a server back home but it was very cool at the time to have a fully end to end solution for personal cloud computing.