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.
“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.
Yup, Jordan was right, they want you to rent everything.
I would rather never touch a computer again than rent one.
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.
I’ll give up computers entirely before I rent one from you greedy pricks.
“Own nothing and be happy”
Imagine the unparalleled censorship when the far-right tech elites decide what you can do on “your” computer.
Maybe I would rent a cloud PC but not from a big US company or any USA based service or software company.
Imagine the tracking and monitoring of activity they could do. Might as well go voyeur at that point.
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.
Good luck with that.
Signed,
A person who has recently started pulling all their files from cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox
You reminded me. I need to put that new 14TB hard drive to good use and close my other accounts.
Yeah, I’ve not used Google Drive or Dropbox in years but have just let my data sit on their servers.
Now that all these companies want to scrape our files for AI bullshit it felt like a good time to remove it all.
Yeah bud, maybe if you get just a little more money, you’ll finally be complete. Just a little more money…
Something something my cold dead hands
Make no mistake, the oligarchs see the personal computer as a 40-year-old experiment that has failed, or needs to fail. They want their mainframes and CPU/hr billing back. Server hosting for enterprise uses has already gone this way for the most part. Small consumers are next.
“Hopes”, more like will be doing a bunch of anti-competitive bullshit to ensure that this is your only option.
