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.
yeah you know what i always thought hey this PC cost me a lot, i wish I could keep paying for it indefinitely.
I’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?
fucking microsoft too. they’re enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead
So wait is the idea that computers would just be like a monitor that connects directly to Amazon
Yes, they’d become a thin client.
The concept isn’t new and happens in the corporate world connecting to the corporate servers to run the software, but he wants that to become the norm.
A chromebook is somewhere between the middle of a regular computer, and what Bezos wants.
Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I’m not having any of it.
That idea is very old. There was such a company as Sun Microsystems.
I guess there’s more than one reason all pc parts are rising at a ridiculous rate
The only thing people should be giving up is their Amazon Prime subscriptions and AWS hosting. You’re very likely getting ripped off and overcharged if you use AWS. Also although I recommend ordering from other websites if you have no choice but to use Amazon you don’t need Prime for free shipping, just wait until you have enough stuff in your cart such that you’re over the free shipping threshold. Don’t order unnecessary stuff to get over the threshold.
These greedy fucks are coming after everything you have, that’s how this works.
Literally never.
Were not the target market.
We’re too.
Imagine a world where you have been blacklisted from their services because you posted online about the corruption he feeds.
now imagine how difficult it will be to get or keep a job where you can’t use a computer when 85% of all jobs now require AI “skills”.
don’t worry, you can work in one of the many warehouses at Amazon…
Nah I’ll be like the old nonna who is the only one who can only make the pannetone the traditional way, but I can connect a GPU to the mobo
I’m not giving up my PC, I’m running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.
So that’s what they meant by techno feudalism.
Um no
Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore’s law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense. This is pure corporate greed and nothing else.
You will own nothing and be happy.
A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated
People should be more aware that appeal to making you feel old or antiquated is one of the main strategies from corporations to push their products into you.
No, you’re not antiquated. Just be yourself and do things the way you like to do, not the way corporations want to force you into. No one should judge you, and if they do, they’re wrong for judging others for their way to do things. Don’t fall for that trap
Meanwhile, I’m preparing myself to long periods of internet outage and intermittent access.
been preparing for a decade, but got serious after 2018 for some reason
