Linux Phones and Unlocked Bootloaders?
Or are computers gonna just go the smartphone route and you can’t instal another OS?
I mean, Chrombooks are the first example of computers being more locked down. Will compouter manufacturers do the same? Mifrosoft now requires TPM on windows 11, could they make “Secure Boot” mandatory for windows 12? (Thereby preventing a linux install)
I wonder if not computers will move away from being a physical unit and instead being a cloud service. The smartphone will be the access point for your cloud computer, and you will connect it to peripherals, just like you would a laptop today.
Ah yes, The Expanse future with authorities shutting down your comms and mad scientists testing bio-weapons on humans.
So… Lovely… 🙃
I haven’t seen The Expanse, but I get it from context. I still believe that is how a lot of people will operate in when 5G is wide spread enough in the US (because that is most likely where the money to develop this will come from and hence the first target market. Or perhapas somewhere in Asia.) + 5 years to develop and sell products.
Unless I am completely wrong and some other trend comes along and the tech world takes a whole other course. 🤷
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365
Microsoft is doing it
Well it’s already like that when you go on the web right?
More like remote desktop, like your whole computer being cloud based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi.
Back to the old ways… But I doubt it, a running computer is so cheap to produce it doesn’t really make sense.
Why not? It’s not going to be cost effective to discard a usable computer, of course. But hen your phone can be hooked up to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and the phone’s internet can be used to stream the remote computer, why have a computer? Or if your phone could give you the same interface as your current computer?
I will personally most likley always own a “ordinary” computer, but I wonder if a majority of the populace will.
Well, your phone is the computer I’m talking about, it’s insanely powerful already IMO, so most stuff can happen locally.
So we would have gone full circle on Mainframes.