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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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Alternative Advice: Buy up old used mini-pcs if hardware is too expensive. Don't buy AWS unless you actually need cloud services (i.e. you're hosting a website).
I won't say VPSs don't have their utility, but anyone framing it as an alternative to owning a PC is completely DeLuLu and need their head examined.
There are other VPS providers you can use, though, most of the Fediverse uses Hetzner, for instance.
I wish Hetzner didn't require uploading my legal documents (they asked for my passport or ID) to verify my account. Otherwise, seems cool. I'm in the US.
I've been trying using a VPS entirely as a development box. Something that has my entire development environment in it. Then I can just SSH to it from wherever and always have my workspace ready where I left off in tmux.
It has it's pros and cons. But it's definitely not a crazy idea. In fact it's a pretty old idea.
Even game streaming has gotten some traction. And when GPUs all cost $4k, maybe GeForce streaming isn't a bad financial choice.