Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
I’ll go a step further, they don’t even want “civilians” to have access to any kind of general compute anymore. Just a speaker/microphone, maybe a display that you talk at. No traditional UI, no ability to own or save documents, or even have any concept of where these files live.
Now seems the perfect time to shed the cloud from one’s daily life and do the exact opposite. If one wants or needs compute, it lives in their home. Offsite backup at a friend’s or family’s home. There is not particularly a “need” for all these centralized datacenters for any human other than those that want control of everything.
I’m trying to write learning material on the Windows 11 file system (I’ve never touched Windows 11 BTW), and Microsoft seems to be deliberately confusing people about the file system.
A year ago I was working for a company that used such PC in the cloud services. 10 months of renting that cost about the same as buying an equivalent laptop. It wasn’t good.
If you mostly need a machine for word-processing and do something intense for an hour a week there might be a possibility of saving money, but for regular use no way.
Also if you have an office where people occasionally need a powerful system then just buy one powerful PC and have them share.
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I’ll go a step further, they don’t even want “civilians” to have access to any kind of general compute anymore. Just a speaker/microphone, maybe a display that you talk at. No traditional UI, no ability to own or save documents, or even have any concept of where these files live.
Now seems the perfect time to shed the cloud from one’s daily life and do the exact opposite. If one wants or needs compute, it lives in their home. Offsite backup at a friend’s or family’s home. There is not particularly a “need” for all these centralized datacenters for any human other than those that want control of everything.
I’m trying to write learning material on the Windows 11 file system (I’ve never touched Windows 11 BTW), and Microsoft seems to be deliberately confusing people about the file system.
there’s already GeForce now and there was also Google stadia but they shut that down a few years ago
A year ago I was working for a company that used such PC in the cloud services. 10 months of renting that cost about the same as buying an equivalent laptop. It wasn’t good.
If you mostly need a machine for word-processing and do something intense for an hour a week there might be a possibility of saving money, but for regular use no way.
Also if you have an office where people occasionally need a powerful system then just buy one powerful PC and have them share.
JB can suck my duck.
Wouldn’t you need a computer anyway to interface with those cloud options?
would just be a dumb terminal that’s locked down
Sure, but only if he can get openreach to run me fiber to my house!
Wait, no I don’t want a cloud computer. I like things the way they are