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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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm game.

I like campuses with dumb terminals and private clouds, where you can restore your session from any building at any desk.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's reasons for thin clients and cloud computing. It should absolutely not be in the hands of greedy companies though.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Yep. Sometimes computers in the cloud are your own computers.