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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.
I worked with someone that defend this isea to the letter, just not contemplating companies.
The argument stemmed from an alledge visit he had done to Japan, where he had seen terminals connected to mainframes, and people used those from their house.
I was only able to raise one argument: that is not my computer.
Mind that this man was extremely tech savvy, an experienced and proficient programmer and played the roles of IT solutions an security implementer and supervisor at the company we worked at. And we handled sensitive information.
To him, relegating everything to an outside server was a dream, as removed the hassle and responsability of having to maintain, repair, replace and upgrade hardware. Everything needed should be a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse or trackball.
There are plenty of smart tech workers without the first clue about morality or human rights. Outside of tech these people are ignorant and naive. That's why so many techbros become libertarians and stumble into fascism. It's cluelessness and a basic lack of curiosity to discover the world outside of tech.
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.
Nah, Bezos. Linux is getting better by the day.
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.
"Own nothing and be happy"
How he thinks he can make more billions by forcing yet another subscription model that takes ownership away from individuals.
TBH I don't think he's wrong, especially in HIS position.
Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing... but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.
So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody else though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.
TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.
Seize the means of computation!
Cloud is just a fancy word for giving up your freedoms. You rely on some greedy corporation and for what? What would the benefit even be?
so everyone owning their own pc is "antiquated" but everyone owning their own car is super cool and awesome. got it.
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.
So stupid, given how quickly computers have become more powerful and cheaper over time. Local PC hardware will never be antiquated, and is only becoming more important over time.
Salesman shills product, nothing new. Besides, there is too much commodity hardware floating around for this to be plausible.
For now. The hobbyist space is under attack, with Qualcomm buying Arduino, and RAM prices through the roof.
If you price out hobbyists from consumer hardware, and offer a slightly cheaper alternative in the cloud, what will consumers do
I'm hanging onto every bit of consumer hardware for this very reason. Hobbysts should get more into recycling and refurbishing existing hardware, especially mobile phone boards instead of buying doohickies.
They gotta do something with all those data centres once the AI bubble pops. Pop pop!
I guess there's more than one reason all pc parts are rising at a ridiculous rate
Sometimes renting from the cloud is a perfectly acceptable solution. However companies leap to using AWS and similar cloud solutions WAY more than necessary or advisable. It is easy to rack up thousands in bills outstripping the costs of buying some hardware and slapping the software onto it. The cloud can scale and do a bunch of cool things but much of the time companies don't need it, or the complexity it brings. There is also the small matter of data sovereignty - if I were a company using the cloud I would be extremely wary of one which is operating outside of my legal jurisdiction and for governments it just a flat out bad idea.
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Fuck you, Bezos. And fuck Amazon. I'd go full Luddite before giving you a single cent.
Well chucklefuck you need a basic PC to act as the client. You know what kind of computer most people have? A shitty PC good enough to be the fuckin client. Why would they want to pay for a shitty pc to rent another one when they can just use the fucking shitty PC they bought at walmart for 300 for 8 fuckin years like they do now? That is $3 a month amortized beat that bitch.
He needs to be uploaded to a cloud himself. A bullet to the head will do that.
