Again, depends on what your use case is. Even if you find a stripped down OS that's less resource heavy, you'll probably still be using the same other software (i.e. same browser on the same modern web, and you'll be out of RAM once you open 10-20 tabs). If a manufacturer has meant this as base specs for a thin client, you're not tricking anyone (but yourself) by trying to use it as a full featured computer, and you're still driving sales (at least on the hardware part) on a deliberately crippled product.
If you want to vote with your wallet (as IMO everyone should), you don't buy this and repurpose it; you simply don't buy it.
Depends on what you do and depends on how it's set up.
At a previous job we had thin clients set up to connect to some remote desktops, and indeed they were running an OS locally, but had barely enough resources to run the OS and the client app.
IMO the only thing the cloud is useful for in this context is maintaining and syncing saves. Other than that I want my games running locally, thank you.
This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I'm on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I'm never getting back.
The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I'm a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I'm in. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be there at all.
Yeah, maybe you're right. Seems like a better idea would be to just talk to the kids and get them convinced that it's trash and/or find them something more productive to do.
I'm all for hardware remappable keyboards in laptops too - just like what you can have with an external one. I do realise though that this is a niche within a niche. From what I know only Framework (oh, and System76) is doing something like that.
I don't smoke, but would still sometimes go out with my colleagues who do smoke.