This is how we end up with Sharknado.

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Desktop streaming isn’t the same as web apps.

Modern desktop streaming is quite impressive. 100ms, 5% loss is no problem for most tasks. You don’t even notice it, and as a result your experience can sometimes be better.

Additionally you can offload some tasks to the local machine where appropriate.

You dont need to fit every users needs into a thin client setup, but you could fit probably 50% of all users onto one and they wouldn’t know any different. Think of the energy savings. Think of all that plastic that goes into a desktop or laptop that isn’t needed in a virtualized blade chassis. Think of the rolling performance upgrades. Think of never having your hardware go End of Support. Think of the old equipment that ends up properly e-wasted instead of shoved into a dump. Think of the batteries that no longer need to get produced.

I might play around with this idea and host my own non-profit Desktop as a Service.

They’d hire Bloc Party to be the entertainment at the announcement party.

I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere:

Renting PCs is probably overall cheaper and a lot better for the environment. Most people don’t need a machine, they just need a thin client and something to access a few apps maybe 30 mins a day.

Even “power users” don’t need a machine.

If there were a non-profit or not-for-profit that was selling maybe an rpi we’d be saving a lot of money and reducing climate harm.

I just don’t trust bezos to not be greedy.

Run windows in a vm for work.

Close them. Hoarding tabs is still hoarding.

It’s just a normal review on google or yelp.

This plugged into a raspberry pi would be a cheap alternative to a true kvm appliance.

https://openterface.com/product/minikvm/

You don’t need a kvm for 5 systems, just one for the machine that doesn’t have vpro.

Vpro is really only needed to get you into your bios or fix an issue where you disabled network somehow.

You could buy a standalone kvm. I think there’s one that uses a raspberry pi.

Or you could set up vnc or something similar on your host if you need a gui.

I would put vpro as a nice to have but not essential component option.

Non-vpro with amt will still get you to the pre-os screen I think.

You posted this into the /c/fediverse community. It should be in /c/news or somewhere else.

Might be best to delete it and post again.

Welcome!

Evaporative air coolers only need enough power to run the fan.

It’s not clear what paid licensing gets you. What’s an Enterprise OS for example?

Set up a VPN to your router as a backup. If something goes down, you can still vpn into your LAN and reach all services.

Generally speaking, when using resistive heat, it’s best to use them as little as possible. Direct application to your body (electric blanket) is cheaper than heating the air (heat strips in hvac air handler).

Some people think that using one of those oil based electric radiators is cheaper than a heat pump but it’s not.

Buy Bitcoin.

Self signed certs are usually created with OpenSSL. Find an example online. If you own a domain create your cert against that name.

The better option is to get your backend also using let’s encrypt and change to https. The whole point of lets encrypt is “encrypt all the things”

You should be able to fix your browser cert error messages by adding the cert to your trusted root store. Easy to do on desktops, mobile devices might be harder to do without an MDM.

Sysadmins would know right away.

The beauty of it is that it electron/webview2 will probably get improved and you don’t need to fix the apps.