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.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    One way or another, major company-backed OSes are moving towards that. Checking all your pictures, messages, videos, audio, for your own good. For now it’s creeping on mobile, but don’t worry, it’ll come to a windows near you soon enough.

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      26 minutes ago

      Good thing you can uninstall Windows for now, then.

      Also, I have a feeling that Bezos’ threats to kill the PC (yes, I’m calling them threats because they sound like threats), and the KYC stuff going around are somehow linked.

      Bezos’ threats against the very existence of the PC could also be construed as a threat against self-hosting, including the Fediverse, and against the existence of alt OSes as well.