I will play old and low settings long before I succumb to rent seeking game libraries.

Not a fucking chance, Jeff.

Oh Jeff you sweet little Nazi. You are not getting my computer.

This is already happening in the corporate sector. Up until a few years ago, our clients would ship us laptops that were ties to their security systems and authorized to VPN into their networks. Today, every single one of them have us doing our work through VDIs (cloud based virtual desktops).

We considered cloud based VDIs for about an afternoon and immediately realized that a half dozen mini-PCs running VMWare, each capable of running 6-10 VMs would more than cover our needs, and all for less than $5,000.

bro thinks everyone has 10Gbps fiber at home

They can't even keep AWS running, how the hell are they going to host computations over their shit network?

That's kind of sily. You need some local hardware to run that virtual desktop environment, handle grapics and streaming. That means it's powerful enough to run a browser and some basic apps locally, what covers most of what people need. If you do need a virtual desktop for the few things not covered by a basic browser, you probably pay a lot for the privelege. Then you get people living in a region with bad internet, like rural places, who'll get fed up with laggy performance in no time.

Except for gaming and graphics related things, I predict we will see more and more of a rise of affordable compact PCs just on chips like beelinks/pi's/NUCs running Linux because of this.

Well, I hope you put your consciousness on a computer so we can force you to do the most annoying, excruciating, and boring tasks in the planet, Bezos. You can take my computer from my cold dead hands.

And Elon wants to pay wall the self driving system in teslas or some shit.

We will own nothing and we will be soooooo happy.

Taking a statement from three years ago to be upset about just means you like to be upset.

I’ll consider it if Jeffy-boy decides to pay my extortionately priced monthly electric bill each and every month. I think that’s a fair trade off.

This may be there backup plan if AI demand doesn't materialize and there stuck with billions of dollars worth of data center capacity doing nothing. Could even cause a race to the bottom and bring game streaming to rock bottom prices.

Capitalists take your personal property while communists seize capitalists' private property in turn. Sounds cool.

stop radicalizing the gamers!!! we warned you.

Just slap a Steam logo on it and watch that cash roll in.