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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.

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Why would i do this, motherfucker ?

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

I'll go back to cooper wound nails if I have to

[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe I would rent a cloud PC but not from a big US company or any USA based service or software company.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Aren't people basically already doing this? There are lots of people who only have their phone and maybe a tablet, and for basically everything that might actually require computing power (i.e. photo editing) they end up using a web app or something.

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[–] Enzy@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Boosteroid? Yes, it's great.

Amazon Luna? No, it's a joke.

As for renting a whole machine, unnecessary unless you need a server.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't this what Google did with chrome os and chromebooks?

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription will likely send shivers down many of your spines — but you have to consider the trends here.

You need at minimum an ethernet or wifi adapter and a processor and a GPU to decode video and push pixels to the screen. You need effectively a local PC to rent a remote PC

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

elon can't keep his mouth shut, but looks like they're all psychos...

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