Ersei, the developer behind this so-called Cloud Native Computer, says the project was primarily a “silly” pursuit. There is also a problem with booting from Google Drive currently being very slow. However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to get in contact and discuss commercializing this project or something related to it.

87 points

So it’s a thin client remote booting extremely slowly over a really high latency connection. Cool, the 1980s called and they want their tech back.

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However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to get in contact and discuss commercializing this project or something related to it.

“We’re looking for dumb investors that don’t understand technology so we can sell them a bridge.”

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38 points

Bro forgot to liberally sprinkle blockchain and AI dust on his project before offering it to investors

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It’s basically booting and running the OS from inside the AI in the cloud!! The system doesn’t “use” blockchain, it’s made of blockchain! Every file is an NFT by default which provides a built in system for profit for everything you do on the computer!

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57 points

Wow this sounds useless. Congratulations or whatever.

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53 points

Soo, booting your computer from someone else’s computer?

I mean we’ve had thin clients and PXE for ages?

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And bootp before that, and tftp before that. So I think roughly… 35 years?

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7 points

PXE specifically uses tftp doesn’t it?

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3 points

yep

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2 points

Do thin clients and PXE require a server specifically configured to serve a boot image? (Genuinely asking.)

I’m not sure whether this project is doing something new by just accessing network resources that are nothing more than shared files, without any specific software running on the server (beyond just a server serving files).

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Yes, they do. The novel thing here is serving the files out of Google Drive.

There are existing PXE servers that run over the Internet, like boot.netboot.xyz, so that you don’t have to run your own (assuming you trust everyone involved in that connection). Those are far more practical.

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More being able to use cloud storage and not need a full physical secondary computer. In theory the cloud can be accessed anywhere, even if a portion is down, not the same for a single physical PC.

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21 points

is the non physical cloud in the room right now?

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Nope! That’s the point. It’s in someone else’s room!

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Google redundancy.

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11 points

More being able to use cloud storage and not need a physical computer.

Are you going to access The Cloud telepathically?

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The cloud is many computers with a redundancy, you putting multiple PCs in remote locations so you can access when one goes down….?

One requires two physical computers, while one requires one and the cloud. Not a hard concept here or anything people.

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44 points

So they reinvented terminals, but worse

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35 points

Put a swap file on that bad boy boy and they’ve invented downloading ram!

This is a revolution.

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19 points

Aw yiss, all of my information on Google’s servers siiiiiicc

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the thing that gets me is that said dev tried it first with amazon S3 and it worked infinitely better there

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Probably a bit more expensive though, depending how much storage you need.

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