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You can do it but using a junk second computer with no hard drive, a slow CPU and little memory.
This is the thin-client concept and it has been in use going all the way back to mainframes. It lost popularity when personal computers- PCs- got cheap.
Works like this:
The thin client BIOS is set to boot over the network. It locates your desktop, downloads a small OS and displays a login, to your remote desktop.
From there, it’s passing through the keyboard and mouse input to remote server and displaying the output. The real CPU work is all handled by the server.
The whole Edubuntu distro was built around this design. You could have one decent computer in a school computer lap and 20 crappy thin clients and everything would feel pretty snappy and work pretty well. Cheap and low maintenance to admin with only one hard drive / distro to maintain!
See JMAP Destroy All Monsters by the protocol author for an intro.
Services are currently drop POP3 support. Gmail and Microsoft among them. I would consider it obsolete.
IMAP is very much alive but has so many pain points that JMAP was created to replace it, along with CardDAV and CalDAV for calendar and contacts.
Fastmail created and uses JMAP and Stalwart has first-class support for it.
This is what Mozilla’s Thundermail service uses.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux security vulnerabilities fixed per kernel version
1·13 days agoIf this is primarily fixing old issues, over time we should see a sharp drop off and then even fewer security fixes then before due to fewer being introduced, due to being caught by AI upfront.
On the other hand, if AI is introducing more issues than it is resolving, we’ll see the baseline of security issues being found permanently addressed.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[AIP] Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the PlanetEnglish
141·16 days agoMozilla’s Thundermail email service uses Stalwart.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place
3·30 days agoSystemd does about 60 different things now. Which ones did you want a GUI for?
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Tells Americans To Change Their Diet If Beef Prices Are Too High
2·2 months agoDid Big Lentil put her up to this?
ClouDNS for DNS is good and cheap.
The more services you expect to be bundled with one provider, the more you will pushed towards bigger companies.
I sent this to my plumber to congratulate him on his career choice.
Turns out now he’s an electrician and his company got hired to help build an AI data center. 💀Sixty electricians from his company alone on one job. Drones surveilling the repetitive work overhead.
So much for escaping the impacts of AI.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) FoundationEnglish
1·2 months agoIn the 4.x series, reportedly packaging was updated to use a package using standard Arch packaging format.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) FoundationEnglish
28·2 months agodeleted by creator
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no powerEnglish
10·3 months agoI host my personal site at home with a 15-min battery backup. After that, I accept the downtime. Rarely happens and I haven’t had a single complaint when it does.

So how many of the 900 are they vulnerable to?