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I'm sure he celebrates the soaring cost of DIMMs as they drive PC prices out of reach.

Terry Davis was right...

Edit: For anyone that don't know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !

Aren't people basically already doing this? There are lots of people who only have their phone and maybe a tablet, and for basically everything that might actually require computing power (i.e. photo editing) they end up using a web app or something.

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

And the unprecedented destruction of privacy will be used to detect people who need help (read: about to become a murderer/commit suicide etc etc) and provide the required help to them, right?

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

Oh, it seems that in the future books will become popular.

amazon uplink terminal;

elon can't keep his mouth shut, but looks like they're all psychos...

Boosteroid? Yes, it's great.

Amazon Luna? No, it's a joke.

As for renting a whole machine, unnecessary unless you need a server.

The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription will likely send shivers down many of your spines — but you have to consider the trends here.

You need at minimum an ethernet or wifi adapter and a processor and a GPU to decode video and push pixels to the screen. You need effectively a local PC to rent a remote PC