wanted a free solution

ends up buying a domain

Welcome to the club, buddy!

These fuckers themselves have increased the price of PC components and now they have the gall to release this cloud-only PC to “alleviate the problem of the current market scenario”.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?

The OS is fully running on the cloud. You will be given a VM. Everything stays there. You may have to take permission to download a file from the VM onto your local device. You don’t get any choice about telemetry.

“Don’t you guys have internet?”

It’s funny because we switched from thin clients to fat clients some 30-40 years back.

I’m not using it even if someone is paying me (unless someone hacks the firmware, but that’s a different story)