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.
That’s Nvidia’s whole game plan. Subscription to use their hardware. Limits on hours of gaming. Pay to play more hours.
Money has never bought brains
Ok so the tactic is to drain the corporations of their money.
- piracy
- dis-enshittification
- jailbreaking devices
- opensource hardware
- decentralization
TBH I don’t think he’s wrong, especially in HIS position.
Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing… but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.
So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody else though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.
TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.
He so damn trash
Salesman shills product, nothing new. Besides, there is too much commodity hardware floating around for this to be plausible.
For now. The hobbyist space is under attack, with Qualcomm buying Arduino, and RAM prices through the roof.
If you price out hobbyists from consumer hardware, and offer a slightly cheaper alternative in the cloud, what will consumers do
Hey Jeff — you know what I think is antiquated and should be relegated to the annals of history?
Billionaires.
Go away and live your life of luxury and shut the fuck up. Don’t you have enough fucking money?
Huh… Great point
Over my dead body.
Better yet, over Jeff Bezos’ dead body.
The means of information are the new means of production
Information has generally always been power
I’ll host my photos on a jailbroken pregnancy test.
If you want to be financially free, have no debt. Pay off any loans, dont have subscriptions. Make your monthly costs to be as low as possible.
That is freedom but its the opposite of what is advertised.
Fuck you, Bezos. And fuck Amazon. I’d go full Luddite before giving you a single cent.
Going full luddite is counter-productive
I’ll go back to cooper wound nails if I have to
Wonder if all the AI shit has actually been a way to inflate the price of computer hardware to the point where something like this is the only way some people will be able to afford to use computers at all.
i will never in my life get any subscription to anything, that doesnt have to be a subscription.
so far i’m fine with:
internet connection and my phone number
Yeah… actually how the fuck are we still paying a subscription for our phone number? That’s frick’n bull-crap!
utilities?
Thats not a subscription IMO
Neither is rent or food
That’s more a bill for what you used.
fair. though I’ve seen electricity flatrates before.
