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.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Salesman shills product, nothing new. Besides, there is too much commodity hardware floating around for this to be plausible.

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      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

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        I’m hanging onto every bit of consumer hardware for this very reason. Hobbysts should get more into recycling and refurbishing existing hardware, especially mobile phone boards instead of buying doohickies.