German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by ctrw on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:45AM (#39929091)

Listening to people talk about the 00s like we barely invented fire is something else. There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented. The cloud is someone's mainframe and we moved away from those for the same reason why government wants to leave the cloud.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by rchaud on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:45AM (#39931081)

Agreed. A lot of "new tech" are just cloud versions of what used to be on-premise services.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by digging on Thursday April 04, 2024 @11:02AM (#39931308)

> There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented.

Now there's a hot take!

I suppose for this assertion to work, you'd have to consider Arpanet orders-of-magnitude more sophisticated an advancement than modern gaming, blockchain, VR, LLMs with fully integrated real-time image processing... all just minor increments?

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by CRConrad on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:51AM (#39988842)

There's been very little actually useful new in computing since the arpanet was invented.

None of the shit you mentioned is a counterexample to that.

HTH!

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