Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Nov 06 2022 21:55:42

 Ni>  PF> It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty
 Ni>  PF> and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well on L
 Ni>  PF> browsers.
 Ni> 
 Ni> One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if
 Ni> your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those
 Ni> programs.  I still like to have locally-installed software.  Otherwise,
 Ni> if software is all web-based (or otherwise runs from an internet
 Ni> server), we wouldn't need much more than dumb terminals at home (whereas
 Ni> typically it's a good thing to have your own storage and processing
 Ni> power at home)..  In some ways, it seems like computing is coming
 Ni> full-circle.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

It's weird, the whole point of the "Personal Computer" was that we would get to own our computers, and run our own local software without having to worry about timeshare, or using someone elses system.  It seems as if they are wanting to undo the whole "Personal Computer" thing and move us back to using other peoples machines which they control.

The worst thing is (maybe the second worst), is its the worst of both worlds. At least, a proper thin client is actually thin.  But we are running "cloud computing" through a web browser, which is one of the most bloated, memory hungry applications you can run.  So you have all the disadvantages of having to use someone else's system, with all the disadvantages of committing your own resources to run software.

Software developers truly suck, for creating this terrible situation.  Our computers are turning into "thin clients", with the thin client being the most complicated, biggest, bloatiest, client you can possible imagine.  I have to use a web based accounting program, and its just awful.  It's the SLOWEST application on my computer, yet isn't even really running on it.  What a disaster computing has become. 

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