Technology

I f-ing called it:

https://lemmy.world/comment/21195810

This shit....

Salesman shills product, nothing new. Besides, there is too much commodity hardware floating around for this to be plausible.

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.

These greedy fucks are coming after everything you have, that's how this works.

Literally never.

I'm not giving up my PC, I'm running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.

No thanks, I'm good.

Why should I? Actually, after reading the article, not just the headline, it left me rather worried. All available resources are being pumped into "AI" now, for the convenience of chatting with ChatGPT about everyday stuff, for creating Grok bikini deepfakes or Copilot MS Paint memeslop.

With the effect of computer hardware, like CPU/GPU, RAM and SSDs becoming unaffordable for normal users (and thus normal PCs which need those components), some day users might have no other choice than owning just a "stupid" rig of mouse, keyboard and screen with all computing happening in some "AI cloud".

Sounds to me like some top-level enshittification!

Imagine a world where you have been blacklisted from their services because you posted online about the corruption he feeds.

now imagine how difficult it will be to get or keep a job where you can't use a computer when 85% of all jobs now require AI "skills".

don't worry, you can work in one of the many warehouses at Amazon...

Um no

I mean, that's absolutely where this is going at a business level. Cloud computing has been in the cards for decades, and the only real question is who will do the hosting.

With the price of RAM and CPUs going asymptotic, these big cloud compute companies are building an effective monopoly on high end processing capacity. They're cornering the market on hardware. Eventually, you either use their computers or you stick with legacy hardware (that's seeded with Planned Obsolescence time bombs) or you (shudders just to think of it) start buying computers from CHINA.

When you think about it, there's really only one option.

Maybe I would rent a cloud PC but not from a big US company or any USA based service or software company.

Every 5 years someone invests a bunch of money into thin clients, and then we’re right back where we started.

I’ll believe it’s possible when America’s networking infrastructure isn’t covered in holes.

So that's what they meant by techno feudalism.

Fuck you, Bezos. And fuck Amazon. I'd go full Luddite before giving you a single cent.

Wonder if all the AI shit has actually been a way to inflate the price of computer hardware to the point where something like this is the only way some people will be able to afford to use computers at all.

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

We're so doomed. A lot of people will probably buy into this because they can't possibly be inconvenienced by owning a computer.

I was talking about AI with someone the other day and they said, "Wow, in the future we probably won't be able to work without a subscription to ChatGPT. Oh, well." Like. wat. teh. faq. People see the convenience trap, but can't be bothered to do anything about it. I hate this timeline.

Meanwhile, I'm preparing myself to long periods of internet outage and intermittent access.