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Re:2022 and Aldi: Medion presents notebook based on Raspberr... by mhitza on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:41PM (#30869302)
On the fashion wheel, we've circled back to thin clients. At least that's the trend I notice.[0]

And I'm not against it. A cheap, small, arm laptop that can last multiple hours of use and all the work is done on remote beefy hardware.

[0] See JetBrains Fleet/Gateway, talks by Netflix at strangeloop implementing this pattern for their video editors (I think), GitHub codespaces, etc.

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Re:2022 and Aldi: Medion presents notebook based on Raspberr... by AviationAtom on Thursday March 31, 2022 @01:42PM (#30870098)
I use an old Chromebook, running Linux, in much this way. For it's compact form factor, and the small amount I acquired it for originally, it's been a great value.
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