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.
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That’s kind of sily. You need some local hardware to run that virtual desktop environment, handle grapics and streaming. That means it’s powerful enough to run a browser and some basic apps locally, what covers most of what people need. If you do need a virtual desktop for the few things not covered by a basic browser, you probably pay a lot for the privelege. Then you get people living in a region with bad internet, like rural places, who’ll get fed up with laggy performance in no time.
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.
bro thinks everyone has 10Gbps fiber at home
And Elon wants to pay wall the self driving system in teslas or some shit.
We will own nothing and we will be soooooo happy.
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.
They can’t even keep AWS running, how the hell are they going to host computations over their shit network?
stop radicalizing the gamers!!! we warned you.
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.
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?
No, but I really don’t care, and I don’t really get people who do. Like your brain read it and understood it very easily, it’s not like I’m misspelling something where your brain has to put in extra work to figure out what dreme means or something. At least for me my brain just reads it “out loud” in my head where there, they’re and their have no differences.
Legit question why do you care? Does it make it more difficult to read or understand?
People who learned English as a second language may find it hard, especially if they predominately did so from written sources.
Legit answer: yes, it does make it more difficult to read, because it immediately derails my thought process as I get distracted by the lazy writing I’m presented with.
It’s lazy and what a MAGA Trumpist with a shit education would do.
- Not everyone without a formal education is a trumpist, and looking down on them like that is classist and part of the reason we lost the election
- Using the right there is not a sign of a good education, good critical thinking skills, reasoning, eloquence and rhetorical skills do. Especially by college professors give less of a shit of whether you use the right your then if your argument is strong, well backed and makes sense.
The only thing using the wrong there shows is that you’re not an AI.
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.
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.
