Seems like this article misses the enterprise angle which is the main question. I'm sure some gamers aching for an upgrade will sign up for cloud PCs while RAM is overpriced, just like how Geforce Now had a moment while GPUs were overpriced. But does it make any sense for businesses with massive fleets of Windows laptops, and might already have some kind of VDI setup, to replace them with thin clients? Would need some significant progress on the hardware.
Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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#32It could have been a good idea if tech corps wouldn’t have demostrated to be such huge POS.
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#33If the option of owning my own computer is taken I'll own old computers. If they somehow take that away I'm giving up and moving to a cabin in the woods.
with or without a manifesto?
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#34Yeah, he also hoped to rent Venice for his wedding, but he had to move the venue because people got annoyed. They'll probably also get fed up with him shoving his cloud down their throats. He could then move on to mining asteroids using robots, who won't be unionizing.
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#35Hasn't client server architecture been a thing for a while? I don't understand the need for this, DRAM prices not withstanding.
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#36Called 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.
Strange claiming you "called it', people were saying this far earlier than 8 days ago.
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#37If the option of owning my own computer is taken I'll own old computers. If they somehow take that away I'm giving up and moving to a cabin in the woods.
with or without a manifesto?
I knew someone would compare me to Uncle Ted but I don't share political ideology with him. I'd just want to live out my life peacefully in nature.
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#38Seems like this article misses the enterprise angle which is the main question. I'm sure some gamers aching for an upgrade will sign up for cloud PCs while RAM is overpriced, just like how Geforce Now had a moment while GPUs were overpriced. But does it make any sense for businesses with massive fleets of Windows laptops, and might already have some kind of VDI setup, to replace them with thin clients? Would need som…
I'm not really a big gamer but was looking into buying an xbox again. I already had a controller and thought why not try xbox cloud gaming on my Samsung TV.
With a decent internet connection I now struggle to see why anyone would want to buy a hardware Xbox. Games on the cloud version load instantly, play brilliantly and cost the same as the usual Game Pass as far as I can tell. The catalogue seems smaller maybe but aside from that I see little downside.
I could see it working well for PCs too - as long as the terminal device is seamless. I guess us devs have been renting computers in "the cloud" for decades anyway.
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#39Well, 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/keyboar…
Apple could do this if they wanted to. Hey Apple, Put the Pro back in the iPhone Pro. Give me a dock and and macOS in docked mode.
I would love that. For the things I do on my phone the hardware is so oversized - it’s really ridiculous. It’s definitely capable of running desktop things. Most of the apps out there are just webpages anyway (which are responsive).
They could basically abandon MacOS completely and focus on iOS. I mean sometimes it feels like they abandoned macOS already.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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…
I could be wrong, but maybe you trying to shield yourself from these things also cuts you off from the good that's happening?
There's a lot of bad things going on - but (and not saying this as justification) - there always has. There's always some power hungry person that claws their way to a position where they can benefit themselves at the expense of others. But the majority of people want to have good, peaceful lives with a sense of community and connection. Build things. Make art. Laugh. Grow and learn. Wonder about what could be, and build futures towards that.
Don't forsake them because of the all of the bad stuff that gets shoved in your face every day.
It's a dis-service to yourself and the life you have, and it weakens the people and groups that have do have the energy to stand up to not-so-good actors. If you're _happy_ being isolated then definitely go do that, but don't cut yourself off because you're only fed bad news everyday.