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minus-squareVeloRama@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agothin client machines that you have to lease with a cloud subscription and which are locked down to the intended purpose only. basically the death of generic computing. delevoper machines will be tied down devel kits.
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIsn’t that what windows is anyway?
minus-squareVeloRama@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agonot yet. you can develop on windows without paying microsoft. windows is not subscription software.
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThe way things are going, pretty sure it’s as you say, not yet. The current technology environment is frustrating, to say the least.
thin client machines that you have to lease with a cloud subscription and which are locked down to the intended purpose only. basically the death of generic computing. delevoper machines will be tied down devel kits.
Isn’t that what windows is anyway?
not yet. you can develop on windows without paying microsoft. windows is not subscription software.
The way things are going, pretty sure it’s as you say, not yet. The current technology environment is frustrating, to say the least.