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.
Imagine the tracking and monitoring of activity they could do. Might as well go voyeur at that point.
Amazon sucks
Internet and access to servers is the first thing that govts turn off when they get uppity.
Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.
fucking microsoft too. they’re enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead
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.
Perfect! And after that we can rent our phones from the cloud too. Maybe our electric cars after that?
i will never in my life get any subscription to anything, that doesnt have to be a subscription.
so far i’m fine with:
internet connection and my phone number
Yeah… actually how the fuck are we still paying a subscription for our phone number? That’s frick’n bull-crap!
utilities?
That’s more a bill for what you used.
Thats not a subscription IMO
Neither is rent or food
I love how the author keeps bringing up how expensive it would be to implement a system of cloud computing rental because no one would pay the amount it would require to make such a thing profitable. But we’re talking about Jeff bezos here who took billions of dollars worth of loss for over 10 years before making Amazon the profit machine that it is now. Simply by making things cheaper for a long period of time until the customer base eas so used to the model that they could picture doing it any other way and their competition went out of business. I can totally foresee them doing this exact thing with cloud computing. Make it really cheap get people hooked where they have gotten rid of all of their in person computers and then, once access to home computing is either prohibitively expensive or impossible to do because parts are no longer available or otherwise impossible for people to switch away, jack up the price and make it profitable by squeezing every dime out of the average consumer.
This was also, by the way, Netflix’s strategy as well as Spotify and all the other cloud-based services that people are “addicted to”. Take billions and loss to get people used to your service and not consider any alternative. Then once you have a captive audience shoot that price to the Moon.
No thanks, I’m good.
Literally no reason to live if you have to subscribe for air.
No reason to hold back then, this planet is not big enough for billionaires.
The video where Bezos says that is from Dec 4th 2024 sooooo
amazon uplink terminal;
Genuenly I refuse to use cloud PCs, I don’t give a fuck how “cheap” they are or how “convenient” they are I ain’t using it. If there is still hardware being produced that works with Linux I’m buying it, if no hardware exists I’m gonna keep using my old hardware until new hardware that does support Linux comes out.
The only thing that’s gonna be replaced is capitalism and by extension the capitalist class.
This has been tried, and it sucked and failed every time.
Yeah but that was before you had billionaires of this size able to manipulate entire markets in this capacity.
yeah. Brain likes to think that it’s still 2011.
Tbh I think the Sun Ray thin terminals were pretty cool at the time. Not really cloud because it was an enterprise product 20 years ago, so they used servers hosted by the enterprise. But at the time this idea of taking my entire desktop session with me via my employee badge felt pretty cool. Of course only supporting X11 sessions on Solaris meant that nobody outside Sun wanted it though but that’s not really a problem with the concept as such.
I think it would be cool to self host a thin client system for my household. One main server with everything and I can manage it to ensure that it’s working as it should. Thin clients that myself and fam would interact with for regular use.
Actually, I think I just want an easy way to have my pc in another room so I can use it without having to deal with the heat and noise.
Regardless, the important part is that it’s in my house and under my control. The lack of control is why previous thin client scams were scams and sucked.
Oh, it seems that in the future books will become popular.
