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.
Why would i do this motherfucker ?
Submitted 4 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I think a lot of consumers will welcome this (at first).
For instance, Geforce Now is a pretty appealing value proposition at current rates compared to the cost of buying and owning an equally performant gaming computer. You pay less up front and you pay less in total than the total lost to depreciation over the time of ownership.
But of course, this is the first, honey trap phase of enshitification.
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah you said it right, its a trap.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m sure he celebrates the soaring cost of DIMMs as they drive PC prices out of reach.
sirico@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’ll go back to cooper wound nails if I have to
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
as someone that married a reptilian looking person(her wife with mara-o-lago face), he sure says alot.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And the unprecedented destruction of privacy will be used to detect people who need help (read: about to become a murderer/commit suicide etc etc) and provide the required help to them, right?
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lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
this guy – who also runs a film studio right now streaming a TV series about an adaptation of a video game of a postwar dystopia – literally wanting to replace PCs with his own ROBCO terminals.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 days ago
elon can’t keep his mouth shut, but looks like they’re all psychos…
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.
It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.
However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.
Feyd@programming.dev 4 days ago
The latency from using steam link or moonlight in my house drives me insane. I don’t know how anybody doesn’t hate cloud gaming solutions
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even on WiFi with other peoples streaming it’s good enough to play games like Minecraft and Subnautica, but since I mainly play boring stuff like KSP or Civ latency isn’t much of an issue.
What I won’t do is tell you who my provider is because they’re already having problems at peak times and I don’t want to make it worse.
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So, he wants us to pay to suck his tit?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Most of us already are, when you consider how much Amazon hosts.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
his roided up tit.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription will likely send shivers down many of your spines — but you have to consider the trends here.
You need at minimum an ethernet or wifi adapter and a processor and a GPU to decode video and push pixels to the screen. You need effectively a local PC to rent a remote PC
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Phones? Tablets? There’s your local PC right there.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why a phone connected to the cloud PC is shit
This would be an amazingly trash experience over wireless so you would need to dock both because wifi sucks in most people’s house AND because it would just constantly die.
Then it would ruin the battery to run it this way and on most user devices this is difficult/expensive to replace.
Many people have old phones that would perform even more poorly than average.
Your phone needs to be in your pocket and used for a million and one things not on the desk running a client to the cloud where you are editing an office document .
Oh sorry can’t listen to my music as I walk around the house because I have to fuckin undock it.
No honey you can’t use the PC its actually my phone and I’m running out the door. Let’s undock it and fuck about and make your phone the client oh wait it doesn’t work with your model for some reason? The sound doesn’t work right? oh sorry gotta run out the door.
The efficiency argument and latency are in direct fucking opposition because in order to have acceptable latency you need to have a bunch of server racks near people which absolutely ruins the economics.
Why your TV as a screen is shit
Not positioned in a useful way or with a reasonable DPI or non-shit text rendering , nowhere useful to put the keyboard that is non-awful, pure voice input to use a computer is complete trash
Conclusion
Local clients that don’t suck are going to be basic bitch small form factor PCs with ethernet and wired speakers because those things always work and always work well. If you don’t fuck them up by running complete garbage they already run windows or linux reasonably well without issue. If you need a lot of processing power for AI you can run THAT in the cloud… which is already a thing.
Enzy@feddit.nu 3 days ago
Boosteroid? Yes, it’s great.
Amazon Luna? No, it’s a joke.
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe I would rent a cloud PC but not from a big US company or any USA based service or software company.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
I think we’ve mostly done that already. Pretty much everything we use runs in “the cloud” and most things we use locally don’t require any compute power. Pretty much all you need is a bit of RAM to run the browser.
Problem is if you want solid build quality and a nice keyboard and trackpad, etc. you can’t get that without a PC with a $1000 processor shoehorned into it.
Darkness343@lemmy.world 3 days ago
People complaining about ram and GPU prices don’t know how to make a budget.
It’s just skill issue, not a plan for our technomaniac overlords to take away our technology from our hands
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
From a different perspective, renting a pc and having a thin client would be a lot better for the environment and cheaper for the consumer.
Sadly I don’t think that’s the goal of these companies
Lexam@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes rent a computer from the cloud, while your Internet is capped at a terrabyte