you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

He can hope a lot of things, but Stadia sure didn't take.

Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.

I worked in a Citrix environment for long enough to know this is just stupid.

I'd rather have no PC than a cloud PC.

And I'm a computer scientist, so that's saying something ! I'd sooner switch careers to lumberjack (lumberjane ? What's the feminine ?) than have to work on that feudal nonsense.

Little Lex Luthor should climb into one of his dick rockets and aim for Venus.

The people who would be okay with this already don't own computers, they go with a phone.

Fuck you, Jeff !

I'll make my own cloud, with blackjack and hookers and tarpits to poison your AI scrappers !

And get to it how? Through a PC?

I'd give up computing altogether, or even commit suicide if living mainly means being subservient to these soulless parasites.

My real PC hope is to fashion the case into a French style billionaire solver

It doesn't take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don't need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don't need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we'll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there'll be a wave of RISC-V SBC's that are better than the most recent raspberry pi

youll have to pry my 4 thinkpads from my cold dead hands you slimy sack of shit

What so you can spy on us and other shit you ghoulish fuck. Fuck you bezos

They bought so many GPUs and RAM that will be worthless after the big bubble pop that they now need an alternative plan for that hardware. Brace yourselves to be sold virtual computers.

Isn't that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?

I thought he just bought shit for a dollar and sold it for two. That's pretty common even though he took a big bite of the customer base due to right place/right time dynamics. Why does falling into a shit load of money all of a sudden make you think that you know best on how society should proceed. It's not just Bezos. Every single billionaire thinks that. Fuck 'em all.

And the future thin client will just be a locked down chatgpt prompt. It will still suck just as much as it does now. You just won't have choice.

I think I’ll pass. I’ve been going to too many lengths lately to keep my data in my possession. I have no interest in giving it Bezos.

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We all keep hoping he'll stop being a greedy asshole and he hasn't tried to do that so i guess we'll all have to live with the disappointment.

Fuck this bald piece of human waste. China will be making computers and they will be cheap!

Starting to see the real motive behind the "AI hardware" hoarding.

The quiet part is what they plan to do with your data. Spoiler: nothing good.

Oh god. In the future we'll need open source resistance-like computer part manufacturing.

I’m comforted by the fact that we have such a substandard internet in Australia that the day would be over before an only online machine would even boot. And before you start, there’s no way I’d usr the flaky starlink solution either. I say “bring back the video store”. Where is Schitts Creek star Johnny Rose?

This is mostly unrelated to the post, but, similarly to everything being “slammed” I’m tired of everyone “saying the quiet part out loud”.

Fuck that, I want to own my shit and will build my own fucking server before renting space in a corporate owned server.

Hope he falls out a 10 story window

And when we don't he'll just use AWS to make our PCs worse on the net than his cloud services?

I'm not so sure how 'quiet' it was. We've been putting desktops in the cloud for quite a while now.