A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    That’s the thing, with a free operating system you can do whatever the fuck you want. The best games coming out are indie developers and they can target hardware people have. We can wait them out.

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      1 day ago

      It’s really important not to discard functional hardware now, even by throwing it into recycling. It’s more useful intact and may not be replaceable forever.

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        One thing that concerns me is the wear/tear limits on SSDs. Under normal replacement cycles it isn’t such a concern, but it becomes an issue if you have to extend it out.