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You can do it but using a junk second computer with no hard drive, a slow CPU and little memory.

This is the thin-client concept and it has been in use going all the way back to mainframes. It lost popularity when personal computers- PCs- got cheap.

Works like this:

The thin client BIOS is set to boot over the network. It locates your desktop, downloads a small OS and displays a login, to your remote desktop.

From there, it’s passing through the keyboard and mouse input to remote server and displaying the output. The real CPU work is all handled by the server.

The whole Edubuntu distro was built around this design. You could have one decent computer in a school computer lap and 20 crappy thin clients and everything would feel pretty snappy and work pretty well. Cheap and low maintenance to admin with only one hard drive / distro to maintain!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    If there were ever maps that only elected Democrats, politicians of a surprising wide range of views would run as Democrats in those districts.

    Source: I live in a city that only elects Democrats.

    This election showed gerrymandering only works to point. Better to have fair maps so that the government can better reflect the people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Services are currently drop POP3 support. Gmail and Microsoft among them. I would consider it obsolete.

    IMAP is very much alive but has so many pain points that JMAP was created to replace it, along with CardDAV and CalDAV for calendar and contacts.

    Fastmail created and uses JMAP and Stalwart has first-class support for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    If this is primarily fixing old issues, over time we should see a sharp drop off and then even fewer security fixes then before due to fewer being introduced, due to being caught by AI upfront.

    On the other hand, if AI is introducing more issues than it is resolving, we’ll see the baseline of security issues being found permanently addressed.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    He’s referring specifically to local RAM used to run local AI models, whichl he argues is unused most of time. Say if you use your local AI for 4 hours a day, it’s idle for 20. Where the same model in a cloud might serve users across time zones 24/7.

    It’s a similar argument about private car ownership, where a car might be used 5% of the day for a lot of people while 95% of the time it requires storage space, aka a parking spot somewhere.

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  • submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
     

    In 1993 in St. Louis, Lou finds himself living outside the law and estranged from his Jewish family. He risks visiting his cousin Susan, a psychiatrist, whom he hasn’t seen in years, and invites along his Black girlfriend, Lili, who arrives at Susan’s home before he does. Susan has been recently divorced from her husband, Nick.

    In less than ninety minutes real time from Lili’s arrival, the lives of these four characters unravel before our eyes.

     

    AT&T claims the reason their router, the BGW320-500 sometimes factory resets itself is because it’s designed to do this in response to unexpected power loss, and if the house didn’t lose power, the power strip / surge protector may be at fault.

    Which I don’t doubt might be the case, I have old, cheap, generic power strip.

    So recommend me a power / strip protector you trust with your uptime. While I don’t need a UPS, I wouldn’t mind /some/ battery backup to smooth over brief power issues.

     

    This poorly designed table on the AWS website appears to show that neither tier of their new AI agent "Q" offers "Peace of Mind".

    Maybe the table was designed by AI, too? "PRICE", "FEATURES" and "PEACE OF MIND" are supposed to be understood as section headers, but the design doesn't work because they didn't also put "price" on its own row and they pointlessly used alternate-row background colors. They could have used background cell colors to communicate which rows were section headers.

    Feature table for Amazon Q Developer appears to show "Peace of Mind" as a feature option for both the "Free Tier" and "Pro Tier", but the box is checked for neither tier.
     

    You've got multiple monitors and watch to switch to a window several windows away.

    You could switch focus there with a number of arrow key movements.

    "sway-easymotion" allows you to use to press a key that prints a one or two character label on each window. Press that key and your focuses switch there.

    Over the weekend I submitted patches for a couple of new features. First, I added multi-monitor support. Second, I added a visual confirmation of which window was selected.

    If you are familiar with Github and Rust, you can review the patches and try them out here:

    https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus/pulls

    More about sway-easyfocus: https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

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