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.
yeah you know what i always thought hey this PC cost me a lot, i wish I could keep paying for it indefinitely.
I’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?
So wait is the idea that computers would just be like a monitor that connects directly to Amazon
Yes, they’d become a thin client.
The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.
A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.
That idea is very old. There was such a company as Sun Microsystems.
Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I’m not having any of it.
fucking microsoft too. they’re enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead
I guess there’s more than one reason all pc parts are rising at a ridiculous rate
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.
Literally no reason to live if you have to subscribe for air.
No reason to hold back then, this planet is not big enough for billionaires.
The only thing people should be giving up is their Amazon Prime subscriptions and AWS hosting. You’re very likely getting ripped off and overcharged if you use AWS. Also although I recommend ordering from other websites if you have no choice but to use Amazon you don’t need Prime for free shipping, just wait until you have enough stuff in your cart such that you’re over the free shipping threshold. Don’t order unnecessary stuff to get over the threshold.
Imagine a world where you have been blacklisted from their services because you posted online about the corruption he feeds.
now imagine how difficult it will be to get or keep a job where you can’t use a computer when 85% of all jobs now require AI “skills”.
don’t worry, you can work in one of the many warehouses at Amazon…
Nah I’ll be like the old nonna who is the only one who can only make the pannetone the traditional way, but I can connect a GPU to the mobo
These greedy fucks are coming after everything you have, that’s how this works.
Literally never.
Were not the target market.
We’re too.
I’m not giving up my PC, I’m running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.
So that’s what they meant by techno feudalism.
Um no
Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore’s law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense. This is pure corporate greed and nothing else.
You will own nothing and be happy.
With Moore’s law
It’s not really a law and it’s not true anymore.
there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense
There is, and it’s not too different from central heating.
You could live 20 years with the same dumb terminal, while on the remote side you could rent better and better hardware.
I like p2p networks and think socially it’s better to have a decentralized way of providing such resources and paying for them.
But the benefit of renting computing resources is obvious. Except I like the idea of having a local system, and offloading some tasks to remote performers, not renting a remote system.
I mean, of course they want the world working their way and that’s what they are offering. If those thinking differently can’t compete, then that’s how it happens.
