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This seems penny wise and pound foolish. Having employees wait on their computer instead of the computer wait on the employee only makes sense if computers are
by supertrope 3y ago
This seems penny wise and pound foolish. Having employees wait on their computer instead of the computer wait on the employee only makes sense if computers are expensive in comparison to labor. This box is literally slower than a Raspberry Pi 5.
- danans 3y agoThe article specifically mentions that these are intended for work environments with high rates of computer equipment theft. That would only happen at significant magnitude if labor rates are very low. The US national minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, and usually jobs that pay that have very high turnover, so there's a strong incentive to steal equipment, especially if it has any resale value, like a $500 PC would. If these things can be remotely bricked once they are reported as stolen, that goes pretty far to killing any black market for them.
- joezydeco 3y agoThe box has one job: to stream a Remote Desktop from a virtual machine running at AWS. You could do this with a FireTV stick if it wasn't for the need to attach a keyboard and mouse. If the workspace thing takes off you can be sure this will be cost reduced to a disposable item while the cloud instances get faster.