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.
Good luck with that.
Signed,
A person who has recently started pulling all their files from cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox
“Hopes”, more like will be doing a bunch of anti-competitive bullshit to ensure that this is your only option.
I demand you give me control of your entire life, you can trust me.
IMHO this is no different than Neuralink. My computers do a great deal of my thinking for me. That’s why FOSS is so important.
Nothing is ever enough for these greedy fucks
They have OCD that manifests as economic hoarding. They are mentally ill, and are damaging society worse than any mass shooter. They need to be separated from society, forced to undergo mental health treatment, and their fortunes confiscated.
Yeah, we get it, Bezos. You want us to shove more and more money down your throat.
Reading the article, the analogy with an own generator and the power grid kind of makes sense at first… until you also make an analogy with broadcast and cable TV for example - you don’t get to choose what’s on, and in the latter case you’re practically paying for ads and some programming in between. So… how about no.
My fear is that those shortages (artificial or not) might at one point really drive us in a different direction. My only option for now is to vote with my wallet and use my stuff for as long as practically feasible.
When AWS had the major outage recently, my self-hosted services kept on running. The programs on my Linux machines and other devices I own were also not impacted. Thanks, Jeff, but I’ll stick with my “antiques”. Also, fuck you.
Yep, I’ve had one power supply fail in like 15 years. That and power outages was it for downtime on my own equipment. Can’t say that about other services I’ve used.
Friends of mine complained they couldn’t watch stuff and I replied “huh, my Plex is working fine.”
Unsurprising that capitalists want to seize all the means of computation for themselves.
Sometimes renting from the cloud is a perfectly acceptable solution. However companies leap to using AWS and similar cloud solutions WAY more than necessary or advisable. It is easy to rack up thousands in bills outstripping the costs of buying some hardware and slapping the software onto it. The cloud can scale and do a bunch of cool things but much of the time companies don’t need it, or the complexity it brings. There is also the small matter of data sovereignty - if I were a company using the cloud I would be extremely wary of one which is operating outside of my legal jurisdiction and for governments it just a flat out bad idea.
Fuck you Jeff.
lol, no.
Sure, we’ve all seen how the de-centralized internet became centralized around a few big-tech and what that does for availability. When he turns off the cloud-pc I’ve got nothing, and all I can do about it is … also nothing. So if my data isn’t on my hardware at a location I can access 24/7 it really isn’t my data!!
In a sense he’s late. A lot of people already have - phones and tablets and chromebooks.
Millions of people simply do not own a traditional computer.
The rest of us, well, cold dead hands and all that.
How he thinks he can make more billions by forcing yet another subscription model that takes ownership away from individuals.
“We have all this hardware and no consumers because businesses just buy up the competition who were using us, and fire the workers. We need to sell it, but to who? All corporate entities who aren’t dying already picked a
cloud providerlandlord. We own the enterprise market. Who else can we rent seek from?”Your democrats and republicans are going to cross the aisle to help these guys own your hardware and operating systems. They are already killing open source 3d printers in new york for ‘gun safety’ purposes. Democrats and republicans crossing that aisle certainly is for the benefit of the people and not corporations who will create the software that can’t print 3d guns. This, but for computers is next.
“Owning your operating system is for protecting children! We don’t want them printing guns or talking to strangers online!”
Over my dead body Jeff.
