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Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 4 months ago (30 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PXE specifically uses tftp doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yep

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