Re: Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:17:09 -0400, Joel wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:09:45 -0400, DFS wrote:
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Desktop computing is the largest, most important segment of computing,
and Windows has completely dominated it since 1990 or so.

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In an era of SaaS and cloud based applications most desktops have become
glorified dumb terminals.

 
 
The corporate-software drones may be going that way, I sure as hell am
not.  I hate the concept of an app running in the cloud, how is that not
a downgrade?  It would make sense for a video game, not for a business
app.  And the AI crap is just laughable, "Copilot" my ass, I assembled
my computer and I can assemble knowledge, without an overgrown bot
spouting data to me.

I'm not a fan of cloud based apps like Microsoft 360. The software I
worked on ran on local servers (private cloud) but did the app was browser
based. There are advantages particularly for configuration and updates.

How much of what you consume is running on a server someplace? This
newsgroup? Youtube, spotify, jango, news feeds, maps, documentation,
blogs, social media?  When I put together a Python script to measure
instances using a Pico and put the results on a small OLED using the I2C
interface, it's all local. I could pull the plug on the router. However,
I'm looking up the documentation on the web, downloading the MicroPython
interpreter, and so forth.

IBM's model was always big iron with dumb terminals, thin clients, or
whatever you want to call it. Pretty much the entire Chromebook design is
the same. Desktops are getting to be the same.