Remote computing makes sense from an environmental perspective. There would be a drastic reduction in e-waste if people were using zero clients instead of desktops.
I don’t know how well that holds. I’m not under the impression that much cloud hardware can be it is reused. Also thin clients tend to have short lifecycles
I said zero client, not thin client. A zero client is basically just a device that connects to remote computing, not unlike a dedicated streaming device.
That’s a thin client. You can rebrand it however many times you want. I still see em in the ewaste. At the end of the day you can’t remove the computing requirements of running a network stack, a crypto stack, a compression stack, HID, and frame and audio buffering.
Remote computing makes sense from an environmental perspective. There would be a drastic reduction in e-waste if people were using zero clients instead of desktops.
Maybe in theory, but in practice, Chromebooks.
I don’t know how well that holds. I’m not under the impression that much cloud hardware can be it is reused. Also thin clients tend to have short lifecycles
I said zero client, not thin client. A zero client is basically just a device that connects to remote computing, not unlike a dedicated streaming device.
That’s a thin client. You can rebrand it however many times you want. I still see em in the ewaste. At the end of the day you can’t remove the computing requirements of running a network stack, a crypto stack, a compression stack, HID, and frame and audio buffering.