Post Ak5RF1jGWjwR0fG2bo by cy@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #Ak5Q7Gf91Lo13R4BE0 by SnoozyRests@cyberpunk.lol
2024-07-19T07:16:41Z
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@0xabad1dea evergreen
(DIR) Post #Ak5RF1jGWjwR0fG2bo by cy@chaos.social
2024-07-19T08:03:53Z
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(DIR) Post #Ak5RF2mUcE7KGxm8HI by fedops@fosstodon.org
2024-07-19T10:03:18Z
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@cy @0xabad1dea windows machines by definition are not workstations.
(DIR) Post #Ak5RF3QCEbsOG6LqAC by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T11:18:11Z
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@fedops @cy @0xabad1deaWhy not? My vintage Mac Pro is running Windows now and it has dual Xeon, ECC RAM, all that shit…Well, maybe there is a different definition of workstation that I'm not aware of 🤔
(DIR) Post #Ak5RdtJMxdSM8t08KO by visone@fosstodon.org
2024-07-19T10:17:45Z
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@0xabad1dea They just change from **Security Through Obscurity** to **Security through bsod-rity** I guess it works better this way.... **ta-chan!!** xddd
(DIR) Post #Ak5RduOivDKjVmVvJQ by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T11:22:42Z
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@visone @0xabad1deaWhen disconnecting from the network wasn't enough and you had to go for something more radical 😂Not being able to boot is quite an innovative approach — I doubt they have invented it themselves, they've probably picked that idea from the vncviewer account from around here 😏
(DIR) Post #Ak5TJKE7tWkrRis00G by visone@fosstodon.org
2024-07-19T11:41:23Z
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@m0xee @0xabad1dea It was that or tell Leonard to implement systemd-tmpfiles .......
(DIR) Post #Ak5qWITo01smjoMGjA by fedops@fosstodon.org
2024-07-19T16:01:25Z
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@m0xee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation@cy @0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #Ak5rQSQgC6KFoRfwHI by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T16:11:37Z
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@fedops What exactly do you expect me to find there that would exclude Windows machines "by definition"?The article states that the term is loosely-defined and this: "However, by the early 2000s, this difference largely disappeared, since workstations use highly commoditized hardware dominated by large PC vendors, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu, selling x86-64 systems running Windows or Linux"🤷@cy @0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #Ak5s0ZmkK3Lr3GDg1Y by fedops@fosstodon.org
2024-07-19T16:18:06Z
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@m0xee I don't expect anything. I'm just saying that inflationary use of the term workstation is not useful. A unix workstation is a workstation. A windows PC is a PC. That's all.@cy @0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #Ak67jofzIsBrZx5YdU by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T19:14:24Z
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@fedops I don't remember it ever being about the OS — or software in general for that matter. At some point it was about RISC, but it became less relevant as Intel CPUs caught up in terms of performance and gained SMP capabilities. It was always more about field of application and hardware having greater performance and reliability, but that was still supposed to be operated by a single user — as opposed to servers.@cy @0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #Ak67neAgIoZ09mGusi by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T19:15:05Z
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@fedops To me it still is that way, I consider ECC RAM mandatory and SMP-capable CPU os opposed to commodity one — no matter how many cores it has.As for software, NT 3.51 came in Server and Workstation editions — and I don't remember anyone minding that naming even in the mid-nineties, they have revived it as separate Workstation edition of Windows 10.The term UNIX workstation sure exists, but it was always denoted — just like you did, but never implied.@cy @0xabad1dea
(DIR) Post #Ak67sNZzPxu497MlVY by m0xee@social.librem.one
2024-07-19T19:15:56Z
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@fedops BTW Mac Pro and PowerMac G5 are both undeniably workstations, but they run the same UNIX-like Mac OS X as every other mac did in their time, but it doesn't make every mac a workstation. Same way, calling HP's Z-series workstation running Windows a PC would just feel weird.@cy @0xabad1dea