Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.
I’d rather have no PC than a cloud PC.
And I’m a computer scientist, so that’s saying something ! I’d sooner switch careers to lumberjack (lumberjane ? What’s the feminine ?) than have to work on that feudal nonsense.
I’ve seen the term “lumberjill” (because Jack and Jill, I guess), but don’t know if it’s common or even in use.
Little Lex Luthor should climb into one of his dick rockets and aim for Venus.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage SBC Single-Board Computer VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access VPN Virtual Private Network
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
And get to it how? Through a PC?
Shitty ass thin client running cheap hw that can’t do anything, a.k.a. Chromebook.
Yes, Microsoft is already selling these
I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere:
Renting PCs is probably overall cheaper and a lot better for the environment. Most people don’t need a machine, they just need a thin client and something to access a few apps maybe 30 mins a day.
Even “power users” don’t need a machine.
If there were a non-profit or not-for-profit that was selling maybe an rpi we’d be saving a lot of money and reducing climate harm.
I just don’t trust bezos to not be greedy.
- This assumes latency between one’s current location and the remote location is almost non-existent. It isn’t.
- This assumes we have fast and available internet all the time. I sure don’t.
- This assumes we can use the remote computer in every way we use our current computers. No way.
- This assumes, as you point out, they won’t be greedy once they control everyone’s machines. They will be.
- This assumes they won’t censor ‘dangerous’ sites on these machines. They will.
I will happily pay more for freedom from the corporation.
