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.
We went from mass surveillance to hardware confiscation real quick.
These companies are so large that they don’t need the consumer market anymore. The consumer is now the competition. They can essentially purchase the entire planet’s output of computing hardware years in advance to force us out of the market and lease it back to us at inflated rates. All while using all that tensor compute to make everyone’s life a living digital surveillance hell.
Forget Internet freedom, computational liberty is now at risk. Who needs all that expensive legal and technological architecture to steal your data, report on you to the government, and enforce DRM when you can only use rented and approved corporate cloud hardware?
We need to elevate the prosecution of anti-trust to religious inquisition, and burn these companies at the stake. They’re using AI to literally enslave humanity, and it’s working.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 days ago
What a fucking joke that would be on US American networks.
We are ranked like 30th in the world for bandwidth. No fiber dropped to the curb. And shit speed wireless like Verizon today.
Bezos is so out of touch it is stupid.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Is he out of touch or has he just recognized that 50% of the economic activity is already from the top 10% of the population?
I get the feeling the wealthy have just written off the bottom 90% of society and don’t actually give a flying fuck if anything works for us or not. He knows his core sales will go to people who do have fiber at their doorstep.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Thats the plan, organize yourselves now before they do it for you
alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even Ford, piece of utter feculence he was, understood that if you gave people money and time to spend it they’ll give it right back to you and everyone gets to come up together.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
plus they get to control and censor information much more tightly
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Can we not pretend the problem is solely performance based? People keep doing this with generative AI and it keeps resulting in “oh shit, ghibli AI is so awesome”.
Especially since… can you watch a twitch stream? Congrats, you can stream a desktop. Even back with Stadia it was very much viable to play games like AssCreed over streaming and have a very comparable experience to it being local. And stuff like Geforce Now actually work REALLY well.
The issue shouldn’t be “can you make this perform well enough I want to use it”. It should be about ownership and the implication for… everything if all “personal computers” exist solely in a data center and all documents exist solely in The Cloud and so forth. Preservation of anything becomes nigh impossible and you suddenly have to pay a monthly fee to ever see your kid’s pictures again.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As someone who remotes home frequently, no, the experience is not quite right. Packet drop and latency cause lots of input errors and misclicks. Sometimes the local internet decides not to carry your packets, and sometimes even connecting over vpn doesn’t.
You do not want a cloud desktop. You want a physical desktop and supplement with cloud services you can’t run locally.
evol@lemmy.today 3 days ago
People will surrender all ownership if you can provide more content more cheaper and conveniently, ownership is much lower on most people’s priority than ownership
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Then people still flock up on centralised systems.
Don’t even dare to do P2P 😅!
unabart@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I had to sign up for DSL this week in Frankfurt, DE as my neighborhood didn’t have cable or fiber internet. Don’t think that we’re gonna be cloud-ready any time in the next 50 years. DSL. Frankfurt. Major city.
9point6@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.
I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yeah but Germany is well known in Europe for being technologically in the stone age.
theolodis@feddit.org 2 days ago
Frankfurt Oder or Frankfurt Main?
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like desktop as a service might work pretty well in a world where municipal fiber was commonplace but it’s the damnedest thing, the billionaire aligned politicians banned it in a bunch of places
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Like with all tech, we will build the infrastructure with our tax’s, and Jeff will sell it back to us.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Add to it that we all carry pocket computers nowadays with more than enough processing power to do basically any sane thing.
What a completely 1980 idea.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hey! Whoa! That’s uncalled for!!!
…being a human dildo sounds quite fun!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
To be clear, fiber is missing in many places, but it’s not just for billionaires. I have it and I live in a very small, very insignificant town.
I used to live in San Diego, in the middle of a very dense section of the city, though… And zero fiber options were there. I was paying $80 a month for 400 down and 15 up. So embarrassing…
I get 1gbit up and down now for $40 a month.
So, it’s bullshit, and I agree with you. But fiber does exist. I don’t have any idea why some areas get it, and others don’t, but in San Diego the issue was non-compete agreements between ISP’s.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They build the pipeline for themselves, we won’t know about it or have access