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.
>>108610079I 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.
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>>108610079>card readerUsecase when cards are no longer produced along with optical discs?
>>108610079They're good usecases for homeservers that won't lead to arguments with your wife.
>>108610281You 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?
>>108610298they'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
>>108610079this is functionally equivalent to a web browser but unfortunately the damn client needs more processing power than the server these days
>>108610160Our 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.
