LordKekz

You’re right. It’s still stupid though.

Companies should be at least as concerned with privacy and autonomy as individuals. Running everything on Microsoft Clouds, with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office makes you massively vulnerable to the whims of Microsoft. And many of the potential customers are actually Microsoft’s competitors on some level.

Thin clients may be a good model for some businesses, but this device particularly seems to be tailored to use only Microsoft’s Azure cloud as opposed to self-hosting. Moving the computation to Microsoft’s cloud doesn’t make it inherently safer.

Sure, let’s just move your personal desktop to someone else’s computer where you don’t even own the data. What could possibly go wrong?

There is no inherent goal or point in life. You get to decide. You get to give your life meaning.

It can be hard. Sometimes, material conditions like poverty, working conditions or social pressure make it hard to find meaning. Sometimes, you can loose the meaning, like when you loose a loved one. A good society should help empower all people to give themselves meaning. Sadly this is not the direction many countries are taking nowadays.

But despite everything: You are ultimately empowered to create meaning for yourself. Nobody can truly take that away from you.