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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

And get to it how? Through a PC?

Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.

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