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Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version
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cjbenedikt•1h ago
Hmmm...I'm not technical well versed but doesn't it sound a bit like the initial Chrome idea???
Jigsy•1h ago
Considering how countries are trying to push things like Chat Control, I can see them having a hard-on for ideas like this.

"You _must_ use a Cloud computer in order to make sure you're not doing anything illegal."

Amazon et al. will have to pry my tech from my cold, dead hands.

purplecats•51m ago
yes, you are an outlier, and one day (presumably <50 years) your hands will be cold and dead, along with your representation in the holdout resistance movement. you must make a bigger impact than standing your (individual) ground
Jigsy•49m ago
Well, I'm almost 40, so I'm hoping I will be dead by then.
wolvoleo•48m ago
I've given up trying to improve society. They keep voting for the worst idiots they can, buying from the worst exploitative businesses etc. Most people are acting against their own interest and I'm not going to change that.

I'm just trying to isolate myself now from these toxic developments. If society falls into techno fascism after I'm gone, so be it. They wanted it. While I am around I'll shield myself as much as possible by self hosting, custom phone ROMs etc.

Finnucane•53m ago
The year of Linux on the Desktop will happen because it will be the only choice for the desktop.
wolvoleo•52m ago
Biggest cloud vendor wants everyone to subscribe to his services. Well yeah of course. He has to say that, it's literally his job.

But no for me never. I hate cloud.

xg15•50m ago
Meanwhile in the cloud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620835
xvxvx•43m ago
Called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511477

You'll own nothing and like it. Not even your 'own' data. Everything sitting on someone else's server, free to access by whichever government agency feels like it. This is like communism x1000.

biglyburrito•4m ago
Don't call this communism, when it's simply end-game capitalism.
JohnFen•12m ago
I can't imagine a circumstance where I would do that. It's simply a nonstarter. I need to remain in complete control of my machines, and I am not in control of anything in the cloud.
webdevver•11m ago
if everyone had symmetric gigabit, this would be a no-brainer. imagine having auto-scaling CPUs, auto-scaling RAM, etc - it would incentivise some cool OS architecture (yes yes, privacy issues aside etc.)

most of the time i'm doomscrolling, but every now and then you wanna play with linux, or llvm, or some VM cluster.

i bought a beefy rig for these 1% events in my life, and the rest of the time its doing basically nothing. seems a real waste.

biglyburrito•6m ago
lol absolutely never.
kotaKat•5m ago
The last time I tried this Microsoft killed my CloudPC trial not even 24 hours after starting it, wiping out the initial work I'd been doing in the computer I was renting.

So, uh. Yeah. I'll get right back on that "cloud PC" thing.

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