terminals are, dare i say, making a comeback?

>>105895037 (OP)
Saarminals

>>105895037 (OP)
This will go horribly wrong. They will probably keylog everything, then it will get leaked online and it will be full of government passwords and top secret shit
You just wait

>>105895037 (OP)
>Hi, Rakesh

>>105895037 (OP)
How about they come up with technology like clean running water, or functional toilets? Is it a lot to ask from India?

>>105895061
nah its fine. Their website says its safe.

>>105895037 (OP)
so they discovered the hdmi cable, they're like 20 years behind

>>105895037 (OP)
so an intel stick?

>>105895113
Is it secured by "Pajeet - Cyber Defender"?

>>105895037 (OP)
>>105895115
Yes

>>105895037 (OP)
Aren't chromebooks essentially terminals?

>>105895172
They definitely blur the lines at least.

What exactly is a terminal? My understanding was that they were combination screens and keyboards that connected to the actual computer. But how is that any different from a desktop?

>>105895193
op is a retarded boomer, he should've said thin client

>>105895117
>>105895037 (OP)
>>105895172
>>105895193
this is indians discovering what a roku/iptv box is. like that black man who got raided by the fbi for illegally selling those things.

>>105895151
thats brazil

>>105895037 (OP)
i'm against anyone who is providing technology to indians to connect to the same internet as me

>>105895675
I wish they would just stay in india and stop destroying the entire planet

It's been trending that way for a while, you can even rent full PCs to code on Github and they save your desktop and your files and all.
Eventually laptops will die and ultra cheap thin clients will make a comeback.

>>105895193
Early terminals didn't even have screens and were basically printers with a keyboard IIRC. But yeah, in the common meaning today a terminal is a device with a monitor and a keyboard that connects to a computer over a serial port. The text the computer sends to the terminal appears on the screen and what the user types goes to the computer, so you can interact with it.

>>105895633
That's not Brazil. The text is Spanish.

>>105895037 (OP)
I agree that Indians should come back.

>>105895889
>you will own nothing and you will be happy
I'd rather own my computer, thank you.

>>105897576
>I'd rather own my computer
oy vey i'm being genocided

>>105895193
Terminals connect to a mainframe and are primitive machines that typically only output CLI/Text. Most offices that want to use that kind of model where the IT infrastructure is centrally managed use thin clients and virtual desktops.

>>105895889
What the hell are you people talking about? Comeback? Thin clients, which are the modern iteration of terminals, are already quite popular in office settings. When used with centralized Virtual Desktop Infrastructure they are so much better to maintain from a hardware maintenance standpoint because you are not sitting there praying that the fucking desktop doesn't decide to die and take all the files, which makes executives and Stacy the Office Bimbo go REEEE. Instead, everything is on SharePoint, OneDrive, A RAID backed network drive, or something with more resilience, so if the thin client fries you just hand them a new one and RMA the old unit on the back end. And you can just hand them a new virtual desktop if you use instant clones if they somehow manage to fuck those up. And that's on premises VDI. I haven't worked on shit like Azure or Vmware DaaS.

>>105895172
Not 100%. as >>105895182 mentioned they blur the line because they have storage and you can download programs and Play Store apps, but the software ecosystem is geared towards G-Suite and cloud.

>>105898869
So terminals have a small amount of computing power? I still don't understand how they're different from my mouse and keyboard.

>>105898889
a mouse and a keyboard are alone not enough. you still need a very very tiny computer to connect that keyboard and mouse too and then to connect to the server.

>>105895037 (OP)
WebTV is coming back in pajeet form?

>>105895037 (OP)
...For what purpose?
You can attach any PC to any TV already with more or less tinkering. Plus Thin Clients and embedded systems never left, you can buy one for fucking cents, too.
Jeets reinvented the wheel and now want people to treat them like special, pathetic.

>>105898956
they're slowly learning how to use existing technology

>>105899089
They can't afford a pc.

>>105895037 (OP)
Dumb terminals are Big Tech's endgame.

>>105899437
That makes sense, too much sense. You may be right.

>>105899437
Then why is all the hardware getting more and more powerful?

>>105895037 (OP)
The only thing they love more than scamming westerners is scamming one another

INDIA SUPER POOPER 2030

>>105895037 (OP)
Mini PCs cost nothing and you can just plug them into your TV. I swear TV owners are the biggest retards.

>>105895136
No it SHIVAShield sar

>>105895050
Underrated

SKG will kill dumb terminals

>>105895136
slop

>>105895037 (OP)
>making it easier for dumbs jeets to use the Internet

Uh...

>>105895037 (OP)
all this technology only to tell them to poo in the loo?

>>105899319
A raspberry pi zero is $5, if your poorer than that you can't even afford food.

>>105903083
does it have actually fast hardware encoding and decoding? If not its useless for this usecase.

>>105903403
They are running it on their ancient 480p crts, it doesn't need much power, plus WebTV was 30 years ago and did the same thing.

>>105903536
Looks like it does have hardware decoding. Encoding is useless for a terminal so never mind.
Still without it i don't think it wouldn't even handle 480p.

>WebTV
Costed a billion times more than the PI and ran stuff locally. This indian termial thing is probably just some VNC into a VM where you actually need proper hardware decoding.

>>105895037 (OP)
Terminals are the corporate end-game. Total userspace control for maximum rent. Personal compute was a trillion dollar mistake.

>>105895037 (OP)
>aiming to close India's tech gap
grim

>>105895037 (OP)
The Ultimate and final Man in the Middle. Literally everything you do, just available to them. Every password you type. Every connection you make. Every fucking pixel you see.

>>105895050
kek'd

>>105900623
More powerful, but also more locked down.

>>105895037 (OP)
Isn't this the same thing as hooking your TV to a computer?

>>105895037 (OP)
India will never be a superpower until they solve their sanitation problems.

>>105895037 (OP)
Cool, how about transforming one room in their houses into a fucken bathroom with a toilet?

1998 called
webtv is suing

>>105905427
https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs

>>105895071
iJEETS BTFO

>>105909218
Will take a billionaire brobably

>>105895136

>>105913936
what happened on july 19th?

>>105895050

>>105916032
That was the crowdstrike incident where millions of PCs around the world blue screened at the same time and kept blue screening even after reboots. Crowdstrike pushed kernel level drivers to prod without testing, which was common practice at their indian development center.