Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.
The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.
I worked in a Citrix environment for long enough to know this is just stupid.
I’m comforted by the fact that we have such a substandard internet in Australia that the day would be over before an only online machine would even boot. And before you start, there’s no way I’d usr the flaky starlink solution either. I say “bring back the video store”. Where is Schitts Creek star Johnny Rose?
I’d give up computing altogether, or even commit suicide if living mainly means being subservient to these soulless parasites.
Live on. We need manpower to fight the upcoming fight. Every person counts.
Don’t die for nothing. Die for something.
Or better yet, don’t die. Better the oligarchs die for you, than the other way around. Get movin’1
My real PC hope is to fashion the case into a French style billionaire solver
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.
you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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.
Little Lex Luthor should climb into one of his dick rockets and aim for Venus.
He can hope a lot of things, but Stadia sure didn’t take.
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”
And get to it how? Through a PC?
Yes, Microsoft is already selling these
Shitty ass thin client running cheap hw that can’t do anything, a.k.a. Chromebook.
Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.
Hope he falls out a 10 story window
Why not 11?
