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by TLM275
533 days ago
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I am the author of this article. The moderators on Hacker News don't let me post here anymore, and they de-emphasize my articles that anyone else posts to prevent them from being viewed by many people. If I recall correctly, they even shadow banned worldofmatthew for a while for posting too many of my articles? So, I am surprised that so many people found this post. Since the moderators still allow me to comment here... As I said in my article, "And, please don't insult my intelligence by comparing this device to a thin client. I have installed OPNSense on a thin client to make it into a very nice home router. Something useful like that will very likely be impossible with this device." So, apparently some commenters here didn't read enough of the article to get that far. I like thin-clients, because they are general-purpose computers. I haven't tried every one, obviously, so some might not be, but I love the one I have. The problem with the Windows 365 Link, as I see it, is that it is as far as it can be from a general-purpose computer--although it isn't out yet, so we can't really know for sure what its capabilities are. My main objection to the Windows 365 Link is that I see it not as merely another locked-down corporate device but as a harbinger of things to come for us all. I am sorry that so few people here seem capable of understanding the long-term corporate goals that this device highlights, and that is the source of my frustration that leads to my hostility in this article. I see all of the freedoms that we once looked forward to from what we once called "the computer revolution" being taken away one by one. And the attitudes of most of the people here on Hacker News are one reason this is happening. Many of you think you are so smart, but either you aren't smart enough see what is coming, or you simply don't care. Either way, I feel sorry for you. |
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Do you really think that even in the next 20 years that no one will sell a regular computer? We’ve had lockdowned single purpose computers since the coders consoles came out in 1977.
True this has more local processing power than dumb terminals in the past. But only because the cost of compute has gotten a lot cheaper and things that people want today - multiple monitors, good video conferencing (that works locally on these devices) require low latency.
This is no different than the needless panic when Apple introduced the Mac App Store in 2006 and people thought Apple would lock out installing apps outside of the App Store on Macs.