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fucking microsoft too. they're enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead
FIFY: Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud - hopes that ~~you'll give up~~ you won't be able to afford a PC and will be forced to rent one from the cloud
Bezos would sell oxygen subscriptions if he could.
As @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com stated. This would never work in the US without major overhaul to existing infastructure. I'm rocking a 32/32 Mbps atm. My parents? they get 5. I have to enable steam to limit itself to 512kb/s download or I will take down their network as a whole and if anyone is using youtube or netflix it has to be a 240p or it starts to granulate. Remind me how a cloud based PC is going to work in this state.
Easy, they will just be locked out of having access to computing, that way they can only get their news and information from right-wing AM talk radio.
You'll have to rent a starlink from Elon, so he can keep an eye on your habits too.
Just think of the marketing potential, dynamic pricing ...
(Sounds like hell to me)
"You will own nothing and LIKE IT!"
Yeah go screw yourself Tech weirdo's. You could help us, instead you just bleed us dry for profits.
I would rather never touch a computer again than rent one.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
We're so doomed. A lot of people will probably buy into this because they can't possibly be inconvenienced by owning a computer.
I was talking about AI with someone the other day and they said, "Wow, in the future we probably won't be able to work without a subscription to ChatGPT. Oh, well." Like. wat. teh. faq. People see the convenience trap, but can't be bothered to do anything about it. I hate this timeline.
So, these idiots didn't learn their lesson the first time with the colossal flop that was Stadia and now they want to convince us that, this time for sure, we really don't want to own our own hardware and cloud computing is the future?
These guys should not be getting a single bent penny for convincing people to switch over to cloud computing when their AI slop machines are responsible for the scarcity that is causing hardware prices to be completely uneconomical.
They also want our cars, they want our homes, they want our lives.
Murica is a deranged shithole. Linux is our only way out of this. To all hardware manifacturers: Build your goddamn drivers for it and free us!
~cry in the capitalist vacuum...
Imagine a world where you have been blacklisted from their services because you posted online about the corruption he feeds.
now imagine how difficult it will be to get or keep a job where you can't use a computer when 85% of all jobs now require AI "skills".
don't worry, you can work in one of the many warehouses at Amazon...
This is actually terrifying. Switching to Linux will help us for a while, and the community can take us a long way, but eventually the hardware in physical PCs won't be able to perform basic functions. Maybe it's because cloud PCs use vastly more power and web designers inefficiently update to a web 4.0 that won't be accessible on older hardware -- this has happened before. Or it'll be because the cloud PCs have access to Wi-Fi cards or a new technology entirely to connect that physical hardware won't have access to -- already a standard practice with cell phones' arbitrary gsm phaseouts.
A phaseout of physical hardware would also entail a phaseout of physical accessories, so you can't data-horde your way out of this one unless, maybe, you invested in the now-rare M-Disc format and the drives that make them work. You can buy external offline storage for a while, but eventually it'll all get bought up on the used market or otherwise fail in 5-10 years after the last hard drives get made for consumers. Eventually you will lose all your files and have no way to back them up. No Jellyfin server for movies you legally ripped, no GOG installers for games you legally bought, no music library or ebooks either, they'll all be gone, stolen, so you buy it all over again in perpetuity.
Our only hope, really, is small businesses continuing to build physical PCs with equal power as the cloud devices. But would parts manufacturers let them? The current situation with data centers, SDDs, and RAM shows that parts manufacturers are increasingly only interested in selling to other large businesses. Consumers can't boycott that.
I fully expect to be unable to access my bank or make appointments or get meaningful employment if I don't switch over in 10 to 20 years.
Why in the fuck did we move away from mainframes and dumb terminals in the first place, Bozes? Now back to that, but... cloud based, and we pay you to fuckin own everything? Get bent!
So that's what they meant by techno feudalism.
In a sense he’s late. A lot of people already have - phones and tablets and chromebooks.
Millions of people simply do not own a traditional computer.
The rest of us, well, cold dead hands and all that.
Fucking parasite.
I'm not sure how, but billionaires need to have their billions forcibly taken and redirected toward the public good. If humanity wants any future other than techno-feudalist fascism we need to figure out how to destroy the global billionaire class permanently within the next few decades or we are gonna be fucked for centuries. You'll rent everything and own nothing, they will bleed everyone dry, and if you rise up to disrupt the system you'll get a robot boot on your neck.
No thanks, I'm good.
Sure, we've all seen how the de-centralized internet became centralized around a few big-tech and what that does for availability. When he turns off the cloud-pc I've got nothing, and all I can do about it is ...... also nothing. So if my data isn't on my hardware at a location I can access 24/7 it really isn't my data!!
Bezos isn't a visionary, he's a recationary. His opinions are worth less than the toilet paper I use to wipe my asshole with. Ya'll need to get off Lex Luthor's nutbag.
As they say in my county: "go and die far from here, so I can't smell you".
Something something cold, dead hands
Luna has what a million users world wide? Its a drop in the bucket. Stadia failed. Game pass streaming sucks ass. Its never going to take off. How much more money do these cunts need??
There is no cloud, just someone else computer.
lol, no.
Money has never bought brains
Meanwhile, I'm preparing myself to long periods of internet outage and intermittent access.
At the same time I'm seeing a bunch of ads for "hardware is getting too expensive, use Akamai cloud for your gaming etc instead, now with AI blah blah!"
Bitch, you're the reason hardware is so expensive!
Never ever ever. I learned to code on a 14 year old hp probook. I know how long I can hold out.
Yeah, we get it, Bezos. You want us to shove more and more money down your throat.
Reading the article, the analogy with an own generator and the power grid kind of makes sense at first... until you also make an analogy with broadcast and cable TV for example - you don't get to choose what's on, and in the latter case you're practically paying for ads and some programming in between. So... how about no.
My fear is that those shortages (artificial or not) might at one point really drive us in a different direction. My only option for now is to vote with my wallet and use my stuff for as long as practically feasible.
I would rather lower the specs of my network than rent anything from them. If in 2035 I can only afford a raspberry pi 7, so be it.
