Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Nightfox
From : claw
Date : Mon Nov 07 2022 07:47:45

On 05 Nov 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 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

I completely agree.  Keep the power at home.  If you want a web app then host it locally and access it across the internet.  Nextcloud offers all the goodies Google has and you can do it on a PI if you don't have a server sitting around.

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