Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you all ready for subscription based PCs? Because they are going to make sure that’s the only way you can afford decent hardware.
I can hook you up right now with a solid Dell Optiplex 9010, your choice Windows or Linux, just $15.99 a month lease. If anything goes wrong with the hardware, we’ll send you a new one and you just ship the old one back.
*Not responsible for lost data due to failure to use proper backup strategies.
I’d recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won’t get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you’d have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider’s cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.
I mean, at that point it’s ethical to raid data centers
I’ll absofuckinglutely assist in providing an alternative.
Nvidia already does this with their game streaming service. Buy cheap hardware for yourself, then play games as if you’re running a 5090.
But eventually you won’t have a choice. They will make they hardware entirely unaffordable.
And NVidia are ramping up their subsciption prices already…
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Or it’ll be like buying a used car, 36 monthly payments and your PC will finally be yours!
can@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
I think we’re already there.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More like you’ll access better hardware over the web with a subscription fee.