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.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    As someone who remotes home frequently, no, the experience is not quite right. Packet drop and latency cause lots of input errors and misclicks. Sometimes the local internet decides not to carry your packets, and sometimes even connecting over vpn doesn’t.

    You do not want a cloud desktop. You want a physical desktop and supplement with cloud services you can’t run locally.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      Again, plenty of folk, self included, have no issues with streaming from a datacenter and geforce now is quite successful.

      Understand that the codecs make a huge difference. But the actual inputs are literally bytes per minute of data. MAYBE kilobytes if you are particularly good at Starcraft