Frick.

Dude, tomorrow’s Saturday

The largest companies are the cloud.

Privacy doesn’t exist on corporate networks, so they don’t. However, the early thin clients had local servers. I don’t know how the very largest companies would feel about giving Amazon that much power.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even on WiFi with other peoples streaming it’s good enough to play games like Minecraft and Subnautica, but since I mainly play boring stuff like KSP or Civ latency isn’t much of an issue.

What I won’t do is tell you who my provider is because they’re already having problems at peak times and I don’t want to make it worse.

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

From an IT operations perspective this makes so much sense they’ve already tried it before. They were called “thin clients” and just had enough compute and network to connect to run remote desktop software.

This greatly reduces the amount of spending you need to build out a large corporate network, and centralizes management just like they already do for servers with stuff like VMWare.

Good to know. But unless you want to be giving Rivers Cuomo the autofocus ones probably aren’t your style.

Also, could there be a backlash against thick frames in the future because they might be hiding electronics

Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.

I’m sure there might be someone with really bad eyesight for whom these might be useful - like if the near and far prescriptions are too different to be possible, maybe - but this is inferior to the actual solution in almost every way.

I had poor social skills well before I started watching porn

Right? It’s like these guys have never seen The Wire.

This combination plus a lean diet and plenty of physical exercise got me in the best shape of my life.

Caffeine + sertraline + thc = maximum productivity

Yes, the correct term for this would be “open api”

Good point.

Gonna blaze up next to an oxygen tank now.

Lighting the lighter in an enclosed space that probably has oxygen tanks is definitely not a good idea

Literally communism.

I would eat that if I would gain the power to sell inferior copper

My favorite UFO conspiracy theory is that the USAF deliberately spread this shit to distract from their top secret programs and drive a man insane.

Google Paul Bennewitz for details.

Not that I’m aware of…