cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1664234/jeff-bezos-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-hopes-that-you-ll-give-up-your-pc-to-rent-one-f
A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.
Bucha Bull to me.
Capitalists take your personal property while communists seize capitalists’ private property in turn. Sounds cool.
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.
*their and then *they’re. Is it REALLY that hard to use the correct one in the correct place?
bro thinks everyone has 10Gbps fiber at home
I will play old and low settings long before I succumb to rent seeking game libraries.
Most of the better games are indie games these days anyways. The AAA titles are the same old shit for a higher price, I’m already not playing them so I don’t need bleeding edge graphics to run the good new games anyhow.
For real. I have so many old games I haven’t even played. Even then, lots of new games still come out that don’t need a crazy graphics card.
I’m on a quest to 100% every final fantasy game. Figure that alone is a good five years. That’s without even looking at the fun indie stuff like What the Golf, Inscryption, or Factorio I or get distracted by.
They can’t even keep AWS running, how the hell are they going to host computations over their shit network?
Jeff can go and fuck himself with his giant penis rocket.
Oh Jeff you sweet little Nazi. You are not getting my computer.
Not a fucking chance, Jeff.
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.
Shit my company got me logging into a virtual desktop wonder if thats this bullshit? It slow as fuck and shit ton of tech errors.
Yes. That’s a VDI.
So, no home office anymore?
Mini PCs running VMware? That’s going to cause problems. No IPMI, no redundancy (RAID controller), probably single NIC so network throughout is limited, etc.
Maybe not such a big deal if it actually performs and they run in a cluster, I guess.
All they donis perform as virtual PCs to connect to clients. The VMs are backed up to the NAS, so evennif I lose one, mini-PC I can copy it back from the NAS, boot, and keep on trucking. Remember, we are talking about VDIs, not home servers. Also, our Minis are geographically distributed between Texas, Florida and Wyoming. Two sites have Starlink network backup, each PC has a dedicated UPS and remote KVM, and each site has a Jackery power system and smart switch that can run the computer room for a few days on battery.
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.
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.
I’m hoping we get proper entry level graphics cards again. Integrated graphics are almost there even for many games. I don’t need 120 fps 4k AMD. 120fps 1080p is fine.
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.
Just slap a Steam logo on it and watch that cash roll in.
From a pure technology standpoint, this makes all kinds of sense.
But we can’t trust them with our information.
from a pure technologic standpoint this makes zero fucking sense. the latency alone, the complete lack of options for people far away from city centers. this is just a concerted effort to control the means of production, and the means of consumption. its unecessary unless you want to control the population. and milk them beyond death.
we need to beginthe violence and sabotage portion of revolution. these psychopaths dont understand anything else.
we need to begin raiding and destroying data centers. stop their construction, we need to target those responsible, and their families. we need to dismantle their ideology at its core. it is unacceptable, and the “high road” doesnt exist. its just another means of using fake morality for control.
they are going to use this technology to soldify their vision of “benevolent slavery and genocide”
we have to stop it, by any means necessary. ANY GOD DAMN MEANS NECESSARY.
start calling your friends, start radicalizing the apathetic, it is time to arm the people and take back our future. before they completely disarm us forever. we are the many. we decide our fates.
If the AWS and Cloudflare outages haven’t taught you that this is a bad idea then I dunno what will. Especially with the rise of vibe coded systems leading to more instability.
