{"id":59626,"date":"2023-11-27T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=c64600524e86d9bef0091a5cfd1aece8"},"modified":"2023-11-27T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:32:15","slug":"amazons-195-thin-clients-are-repurposed-fire-tv-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59626","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I'm typically amused by the hardware similarity of all the devices in the SBC\/Media Gadget\/Thin Client\/Chromebook space and ...apparently Amazon thinks the same way. \nIt's also a super clear \"Rent time on someone elses' computer\" return-to-mainframe-era SaaS rentseeking situation, the shittiest feeblest VDI instances are like $25\/mo.<\/div><div>\n<figure>\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/amazon-thin-client-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"amazon workspaces thin client\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n      <p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/amazon-thin-client.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> <span>\/<\/span> A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/new-amazon-workspaces-thin-client\/\">Jeff Barr\/Amazon<\/a>)<\/p>  <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/p>\n<p>Amazon's Workspaces Thin Client also supports Amazon's Workspaces Web, for accessing virtual desktops from a browser, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/11\/amazon-wants-to-be-your-everything-with-new-cloud-services\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AppStream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The computer is a Fire TV Cube with a new software stack. All the hardware&mdash;from the 2GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 16GB of storage, to the Arm processor with 8 cores, including four running at up to 2.2 GHz&mdash;remain identical whether buying the device as an Alexa-powered entertainment-streaming device or thin client computer. Both the Fire TV Cube and Workspaces Thin Client run an Android Open Source Project-based Android fork (<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/11\/amazon-fire-tablets-and-other-gear-will-reportedly-switch-away-from-android\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for now<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986468&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Clien&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}