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.
Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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#12if 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.
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#13lol absolutely never.
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#14The 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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#15Called 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.
Don't call this communism, when it's simply end-game capitalism.
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#16Biggest 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.
> I hate cloud.
It doesn't matter, the choice is being removed from the market. The clouders are already front running and scalping the hardware retail, just like scalpers were doing to GPUs during crypto.
Today's excuse is AI but it's the same process, just on an industrial scale - the clouders buy in bulk at low prices, create shortages and exorbitant retail pricing, which forces you to buy from them, providing them with nice profits. The only difference from vanilla scalping is, they sell the services provided by the hardware, not the actual gear.
The process is unstoppable without legislative intervention, it works with or without the presence of inflation - front running assures the scalping of retail. The high tariffs on Chinese hardware and the draconian restrictions on selling them gear for semiconductor manufacturing remove the only natural remedy - competition.
On the other hand, the existing semiconductor manufacturers are highly incentivized to sell in bulk so some leave the retail market altogether to become exclusive suppliers to big cloud and big OEM - e.g. Micron.
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#17Called 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.
> This is like communism x1000.
But it is, in fact, capitalism x1
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#18Of course, cloud is the new timesharing.
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#19Bloody rentierists. This is what I've been realizing more and more as this "AI" push combined with rising consumer hardware prices. IMO this is an intentional war on consumers to force them into being digital serfs (like MS and Sun and all the others wanted back in the day). Mainframes->Minis (and mainframes)->Micro/PC->Cloud(and back we go to centralization).
You will own nothing and be happy.
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#20Well, at least for gaming It worked for me quite well with GeForce NOW. I have a MacBook can play here and there some games I like - as a casual gamer it’s fine. I wouldn’t bother to maintain a gaming PC for the casual gaming sessions I have. In this sense - yes, I gave up my non existing gaming PC to rent.
To be honest for 95% of stuff it would be enough to connect my smartphone via USB-C to a dock for mouse/keyboard/displays etc. (I know Microsoft had this and it was an amazing idea) For doing the non standard stuff like gaming/resource intensive development stuff I could rent a cloud pc.