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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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Mini PCs running VMware? That's going to cause problems. No IPMI, no redundancy (RAID controller), probably single NIC so network throughout is limited, etc.
Maybe not such a big deal if it actually performs and they run in a cluster, I guess.
All they donis perform as virtual PCs to connect to clients. The VMs are backed up to the NAS, so evennif I lose one, mini-PC I can copy it back from the NAS, boot, and keep on trucking. Remember, we are talking about VDIs, not home servers. Also, our Minis are geographically distributed between Texas, Florida and Wyoming. Two sites have Starlink network backup, each PC has a dedicated UPS and remote KVM, and each site has a Jackery power system and smart switch that can run the computer room for a few days on battery.