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Anonymous
any use for thin clients? 04/15/26(Wed)18:53:00 No.108610079

any use for thin clients? Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)18:53:00 No.108610079 [Reply]▶

i saw this video about the sun microsystems sunray java workstation, basically it's thin clients with a card reader connected over ethernet to a central mainframe which runs the session. so you're basically just remoting into it. the coolest part is that you can remove the card, go to a different sunray, and pop it in to restore your entire session.

is there a use for stuff like this at home? honestly it would be cool if i had a bunch of thin clients around the house and i could remote desktop or X over ssh into my main PC. but considering that even steam link is dogshit on my infra i'm not sure if i can do that.

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Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)19:10:43 No.108610160

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)19:10:43 No.108610160▶

>>108610079

I had a bunch of these setup in our offices (we were a sun reseller in the 90s) and they worked well. A centra "Netra" server, and half a dozen of these boxes spread around. This was over gigabit ethernet. The bottleneck is the central server.

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)19:15:43 No.108610185

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)19:15:43 No.108610185▶

fun to smash

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)19:20:20 No.108610199

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)19:20:20 No.108610199▶

>>108610079
>card reader
Usecase when cards are no longer produced along with optical discs?

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)19:40:36 No.108610281

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)19:40:36 No.108610281▶

>>108610079
They're good usecases for homeservers that won't lead to arguments with your wife.

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)19:44:43 No.108610298

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)19:44:43 No.108610298▶

>>108610281
You can use them as server? I thought the clients were just KVM that time-shared (so to speak) off the server/"mainframe" like the old 1970's terminals?

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)20:00:04 No.108610380

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)20:00:04 No.108610380▶

>>108610298
they're just cost/power effective computers with very weak processors.
most of them you can install normal windows/linux on to them and use them on their own.
you can do the remote computing you're talking about on any computer

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)20:37:17 No.108610578

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)20:37:17 No.108610578▶

>>108610079
this is functionally equivalent to a web browser but unfortunately the damn client needs more processing power than the server these days

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)21:08:00 No.108610735

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)21:08:00 No.108610735▶

>>108610160
Our school had hundreds of these. All I had to do was open a text document and keep making it longer and long by copy/pasted over and over. Eventually the entire school would start lagging.

Also the retards kept the teacher's personal directories openly reachable by just hitting up file a few times. They punished us for simple browsing to them, even though they're the retards by not protecting them at all.

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)22:11:54 No.108611134

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)22:11:54 No.108611134▶

>>108610079
Anything made before 2020 is thinclient.

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)22:18:13 No.108611167

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)22:18:13 No.108611167▶

thin clients are the future when the average citizen is priced out of local personal computing

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)22:23:20 No.108611195

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)22:23:20 No.108611195▶

>>108610079
>is there a use for stuff like this at home?
I have couple wyse rdp based ones connected to windows server. They work great.

Anonymous
04/16/26(Thu)08:57:08 No.108613420

Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)08:57:08 No.108613420▶

Plan9 was designed with this sort of thing in mind if I recall correctly

Anonymous
04/16/26(Thu)16:25:13 No.108615837

Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)16:25:13 No.108615837▶

>>108610079
>at home
It's entirely a system optimized and designed specifically for offices, hospitals, warehouses. What use case would a home ever have for this?

Anonymous
04/16/26(Thu)16:26:39 No.108615848

Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)16:26:39 No.108615848▶

clabretro is unironically the best tech youtuber, fight me

Anonymous
04/16/26(Thu)19:25:33 No.108617177

Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)19:25:33 No.108617177▶

>>108615837
loud and hot computer goes in another room

Anonymous
04/16/26(Thu)19:28:41 No.108617191

Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)19:28:41 No.108617191▶

>>108610079
Collecting dust while looking down on the raspberry pi peasants and their devices collecting dust.

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