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.
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.