Fucking terminals. These are NOT PCs, this are TERMINALS! 1!!
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.
‘Someone, do something about our problem so we can take advantage of it’
Fuck this is exhausting
Its a reality. Why does apple use usb c now? Because someone else got tired of their shit.
"Some adult needs to come fix my problems for me" seems to be super common these days. It's partly why the US is in the state it's in, but certainly not limited to the US.
What do you expect us to do? I don't buy anti-consumer products as much as possible and I advise everyone I know to do the same. I explain why things are bad, but most people don't care enough to listen. On top of that, these companies collude so that all the options end up being anti-consumer bullshit and you're stuck trying to find the least bad one.
I think it's more of a way for those of is in the US to hang on to some shred of optimism. Surely somebody somewhere will continue to make nice things for normal people, right?
I've spent just a little bit of time in Europe, with most of it in Sweden. I have seen with my own eyes how civilized societies can have nice things in shared spaces!
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You will own nothing and you will be happy!
Please don’t buy this.
It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.
Obviously these are going to be used for corporate or organizational settings, as it what was then with the so-called Network Computer thin clients which Oracle tried promoting but flopped.
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If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren't entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things.
But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I'll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.
Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
I see this going nowhere
For a few hundred bucks I have a mini PC with which I can do anything I want
This thing, even at half price, would only allow office365, with monthly payments.
Who the fuck would want that and not just spend a few bucks more and have an actual computer?
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Going back to the dumb terminal days of the 60s & 70s
Now with added surveillance and advertising!
Unlike Dell, Asus did mention a few more details - the system will pack DDR5 memory, HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5G Ethernet. Exact details regarding the USB and HDMI port were not offered, however.
Isn't the amount of memory kind of a tiny bit more important than which generation it is?
No, no. You misunderstood. You have a “memory” of a thing called DDR5, which you used to be able to afford and purchase. You are supposed to bring that memory with you to reminisce fondly while using this piece of junk Dell is trying to sell you.
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Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters... Guess they found an use for that after all.
"not power themselfs" ?
Microsoft will determine when the PC needs to be booted up as per your employer's demands 😆
It's a really stupid way to describe thin clients, anyway. Assuming that's what this is. I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC.
I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC.
I know bandwidth isn't latency but for a thin client having a rock solid network connection to the virtual desktop server is pretty important for the user interface. I'm guessing pushing video and animations can require pretty high data rates, too.
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And so, the technofiefdom begins.
At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)
These won't amount to much, windows 365 is expensive. Companies really only have a use case for these over dedicated hardware for specific use cases that make sense, of which there isn't a lot vs dedicated computers.
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