Cross posted from: lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/468990
He can hope a lot of things, but Stadia sure didn’t take.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Submitted 2 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
hushable@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I had a friend who was a true believer in Stadia, he even sold his gaming PC as he was gaming in Stadia full time.
When Stadia shut down he told me “at least I get to keep the controller”
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Stadia was great for what it was. As a hardcore PC gamer who went more casual it was the answer to my gaming needs. Being able to play anywhere on any device was amazing.
They refunded all my purchases and I got to keep a bunch of free hardware I had gotten with Stadia bundles.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I don’t think Stadia’s problem was the technology, though. It actually worked pretty well if you had a decent internet connection.
The issue, imo, was that nobody trusted in the longevity of the platform. Given Google’s track record, why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years? I know they ended up refunding people, but it’s not like they do that with every prodict they’ve cancelled.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
why would anyone want to buy in to something that would likely only last a few years?
I ask people this every time they put time and money into a new live service game. I was referred to this community when I went down a self-hosted VPN rabbit hole for old LAN games whose multiplayer will never die.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I had a good connection back then (FTTH 100mbit, <5ms latency) and it worked like shit. There are WAY too many variables that can screw up this cloud gaming stuff, the whole concept is messed up.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the way with a lot of tech. Someone comes up with an ides, tries to build it and make it successful. When the money starts getting tight, they sell it to a larger company. Usually by the third round, it becomes successful.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I still think it’s funny that he went from working at Valve as their Economist in residence studying digital markets to being the finance minister of Greece. I think the Valve job was more prestigious, especially since the rest of the EU was committed to fucking over Greece at the time.
despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Varoufakis explaining how Eurobonds and IMF were fucking over every European taxpayer in order to bail out banks that made risky bets with Greece was quite based.
I just wish he’d stick to economics, his geopolitics takes are quite bad
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I’d rather have no PC than a cloud PC.
And I’m a computer scientist, so that’s saying something ! I’d sooner switch careers to lumberjack (lumberjane ? What’s the feminine ?) than have to work on that feudal nonsense.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lumberjoline?
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d not rather have no PC.
I’ll just keep my existing PC(s).
Also I guess it’d Lumberjacky/Lumberjacqueline
commander@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don’t need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don’t need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we’ll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there’ll be a wave of RISC-V SBC’s that are better than the most recent raspberry pi
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Fuck that, I want to own my shit and will build my own fucking server before renting space in a corporate owned server.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I'm going to keep my PC.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.
Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fuck you, Jeff !
I’ll make my own cloud, with blackjack and hookers and tarpits to poison your AI scrappers !
normalentrance@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The quiet part is what they plan to do with your data. Spoiler: nothing good.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 day ago
What so you can spy on us and other shit you ghoulish fuck. Fuck you bezos
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 day ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Little Lex Luthor should climb into one of his dick rockets and aim for Venus.
Hathaway@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This is mostly unrelated to the post, but, similarly to everything being “slammed” I’m tired of everyone “saying the quiet part out loud”.
arsCynic@piefed.social 2 days ago
I’d give up computing altogether, or even commit suicide if living means being subservient to these soulless parasites.
raman_klogius@ani.social 2 days ago
Live on. We need manpower to fight the upcoming fight. Every person counts.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Or better yet, don’t die. Better the oligarchs die for you, than the other way around. Get movin’1
llama@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
And get to it how? Through a PC?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Shitty ass thin client running cheap hw that can’t do anything, a.k.a. Chromebook.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yes, Microsoft is already selling these
rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’d love to install Linux on that
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Starting to see the real motive behind the “AI hardware” hoarding.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I thought he just bought shit for a dollar and sold it for two. That’s pretty common even though he took a big bite of the customer base due to right place/right time dynamics. Why does falling into a shit load of money all of a sudden make you think that you know best on how society should proceed. It’s not just Bezos. Every single billionaire thinks that. Fuck 'em all.
scholar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not quite, he doesn’t demean himself by ‘buying’ anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Even worse, a middle-man.
callcc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They bought so many GPUs and RAM that will be worthless after the big bubble pop that they now need an alternative plan for that hardware. Brace yourselves to be sold virtual computers.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And when we don’t he’ll just use AWS to make our PCs worse on the net than his cloud services?
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
My real PC hope is to fashion the case into a French style billionaire solver
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Fuck this bald removed, China will be making computers and they will be cheap!
rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Oh god. In the future we’ll need open source resistance-like computer part manufacturing.
despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is increasingly possible, I’ve seen people fab their own chips at home
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
youll have to pry my 4 thinkpads from my cold dead hands you slimy sack of shit
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I think that the problem will be if software comes out that’s doesn’t target home PCs. That’s not impossible. I mean, that happens today with Web services. Closed-weight AI models aren’t going to be released to run on your home computer. I don’t use Office 365, but I understand that at least some of that is a cloud service.
Like, say the developer of Video Game X says “I don’t want to target a ton of different pieces of hardware. I want to tune for a single one. I donlt want to target multiple OSes. I’m tired of people pirating my software. I’m just going to release for a single cloud platform.”
Nobody is going to take your hardware away. And you can probably keep running Linux or whatever. But…not all the new software you want to use may be something that you can run locally, if it isn’t released for your platform. Maybe you’ll use some kind of thin-client software — think telnet, ssh, RDP, VNC, etc for past iterations of this — to use that software remotely on your Thinkpad. But…can’t run it yourself.
If it happens, I think that that’s what you’d see. More and more software would just be available only to run remotely. Phones and PCs would still exist, but they’d increasingly run a thin client, not run software locally. Same way a lot of software migrated to web services that we use with a Web browser, but with a protocol and software more aimed at low-latency, high-bandwidth use. Nobody would ban existing local software, but a lot of it would stagnate. A lot of new and exciting stuff would only be available as an online service. More and more people would buy computers that are only really suitable for use as a thin client — fewer resources, closer to a smartphone than what we conventionally think of as a computer.
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
i will simply not use new software for my personal cases then, if it comes down to it ill make my own. im a simple girl, ill manage my media and play my 20 year old games till i die
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Isn’t that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 days ago
Yeah its their cash engine they use for funding everything else so they can monopolise everything else by undercutting everyone
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thanks for reminding me to tear down my test AWS instances
uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I will build my own in a garage…use wood for the case…
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
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.
SilentObserver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
We all keep hoping he’ll stop being a greedy asshole and he hasn’t tried to do that so i guess we’ll all have to live with the disappointment.
goatinspace@feddit.org 2 days ago
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 days ago
At least there’s no Windows…
goatinspace@feddit.org 1 day ago
No clock like in casino
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
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