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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud (www.windowscentral.com)
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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.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago

I won’t say VPSs don’t have their utility, but anyone framing it as an alternative to owning a PC is completely DeLuLu and need their head examined.

I've been trying using a VPS entirely as a development box. Something that has my entire development environment in it. Then I can just SSH to it from wherever and always have my workspace ready where I left off in tmux.

It has it's pros and cons. But it's definitely not a crazy idea. In fact it's a pretty old idea.

Even game streaming has gotten some traction. And when GPUs all cost $4k, maybe GeForce streaming isn't a bad financial choice.