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I will go back to running a fucking 386 before I rent cloud space from the beez
Fuck that, I want to own my shit and will build my own fucking server before renting space in a corporate owned server.
you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
It doesn't take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don't need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don't need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we'll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there'll be a wave of RISC-V SBC's that are better than the most recent raspberry pi
I'd rather have no PC than a cloud PC.
And I'm a computer scientist, so that's saying something ! I'd sooner switch careers to lumberjack (lumberjane ? What's the feminine ?) than have to work on that feudal nonsense.
lumberjoline?
I'd not rather have no PC.
I'll just keep my existing PC(s).
Also I guess it'd Lumberjacky/Lumberjacqueline
He can hope a lot of things, but Stadia sure didn't take.
I had a friend who was a true believer in Stadia, he even sold his gaming PC as he was gaming in Stadia full time.
When Stadia shut down he told me "at least I get to keep the controller"
Stadia was great for what it was. As a hardcore PC gamer who went more casual it was the answer to my gaming needs. Being able to play anywhere on any device was amazing.
They refunded all my purchases and I got to keep a bunch of free hardware I had gotten with Stadia bundles.
I don't think Stadia's problem was the technology, though. It actually worked pretty well if you had a decent internet connection.
The issue, imo, was that nobody trusted in the longevity of the platform. Given Google's track record, why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years? I know they ended up refunding people, but it's not like they do that with every prodict they've cancelled.
why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years?
I ask people this every time they put time and money into a new live service game. I was referred to this community when I went down a self-hosted VPN rabbit hole for old LAN games whose multiplayer will never die.
Yeah that's the thing, it's especially hard to trust a newer service without any track record of longevity or a company with a proven track record of poor support. Even then, everything dies eventually. Companies will shut down servers due to funding/popularity issues (it doesn't make sense to continue spending money and dev time on a game nobody is playing anymore) or to funnel players into a newer game. It would be great to see more live service or otherwise online games (e.g. MMOs) that are self-hostable.
Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.
I still think it's funny that he went from working at Valve as their Economist in residence studying digital markets to being the finance minister of Greece. I think the Valve job was more prestigious, especially since the rest of the EU was committed to fucking over Greece at the time.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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Fuck you, Jeff !
I'll make my own cloud, with blackjack and hookers and tarpits to poison your AI scrappers !
This is mostly unrelated to the post, but, similarly to everything being “slammed” I’m tired of everyone “saying the quiet part out loud”.
The quiet part is what they plan to do with your data. Spoiler: nothing good.
Starting to see the real motive behind the "AI hardware" hoarding.
What so you can spy on us and other shit you ghoulish fuck. Fuck you bezos
I worked in a Citrix environment for long enough to know this is just stupid.
I worked for a company that did this, thousands of users on Citrix.
Management didn't believe us when we told them how slow it was, especially for data analysis, which was literally the job for many of us. It turned out management above a certain level were on a separate Citrix server, with relatively few users, and they weren't doing heavy duty analyses like we were, so they had no issues at all. Middle management and below were on servers with too many users.
After a few years, they went back to "thick" clients. Laptops, finally. The virtual desktop setup was still available when I left, for a few specific things, but in general everyone used a laptop.
Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I'm going to keep my PC.
I'll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he'll, I'd go to text based MUDs first.
The people who would be okay with this already don't own computers, they go with a phone.
And when we don't he'll just use AWS to make our PCs worse on the net than his cloud services?
Little Lex Luthor should climb into one of his dick rockets and aim for Venus.
I thought he just bought shit for a dollar and sold it for two. That's pretty common even though he took a big bite of the customer base due to right place/right time dynamics. Why does falling into a shit load of money all of a sudden make you think that you know best on how society should proceed. It's not just Bezos. Every single billionaire thinks that. Fuck 'em all.
Not quite, he doesn't demean himself by 'buying' anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.
Even worse, a middle-man.
I will build my own in a garage...use wood for the case...
And get to it how? Through a PC?
Shitty ass thin client running cheap hw that can't do anything, a.k.a. Chromebook.
I'd give up computing altogether, or even commit suicide if living mainly means being subservient to these soulless parasites.
Live on. We need manpower to fight the upcoming fight. Every person counts.
Don't die for nothing. Die for something.
Or better yet, don't die. Better the oligarchs die for you, than the other way around. Get movin'1
They bought so many GPUs and RAM that will be worthless after the big bubble pop that they now need an alternative plan for that hardware. Brace yourselves to be sold virtual computers.
Oh god. In the future we'll need open source resistance-like computer part manufacturing.
I think I’ll pass. I’ve been going to too many lengths lately to keep my data in my possession. I have no interest in giving it Bezos.
My real PC hope is to fashion the case into a French style billionaire solver
And the future thin client will just be a locked down chatgpt prompt. It will still suck just as much as it does now. You just won't have choice.
youll have to pry my 4 thinkpads from my cold dead hands you slimy sack of shit
We all keep hoping he'll stop being a greedy asshole and he hasn't tried to do that so i guess we'll all have to live with the disappointment.
Isn't that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?
Yeah its their cash engine they use for funding everything else so they can monopolise everything else by undercutting everyone