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The beginning of the end. What term to use about such non-general-purpose appliances ?
by dusted 3y ago
The beginning of the end. What term to use about such non-general-purpose appliances ?
- hulitu 3y agoIt is called electronic waste.
- dusted 3y agoor maybe even "a waste of electronics"
- squarefoot 3y agoDumb terminals. Just like the Motorola X-Window ones I briefly used in the early 90s, that essentially were doorstoppers without a connection to their central server. There were technical reasons behind the adoption of that kind of infrastructure back then as processing power and storage were extremely costly, but today there's no reason to go back that route if not for pure and simple greed.