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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks, Mark. Can we now have normal RAM prices again?

[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Nah, best he can do is a subscription based virtual machine with as much RAM as you need*

*premium subscription required for >12gb, metered pricing for >20gb usage

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd rather go back to raspberry pi levels of compute with BBS style text only sites.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just tried this and it’s pure pain on the modern web. Granted it’s a Rpi3 so it’s ram limited, but I have to do a lot more optimization to get it to run stable enough for decent web browsing or streaming a video.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, it's got to be old school text based with at best low quality images. Or use extensions like Text Mode. Modern web is very bloated.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

It already exists. There are businesses whose model is that they rent out vram that you can offload tasks to

And for a couple of years now tech companies have been talking shout how cool it would be for computers to be just portals with all the processing power being online somewhere (as a subscription model)

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

we all know its coming, and this is the end game, its a matter of time.

Careful man, with thinking like this you are about to get recruited to upper management at an evil mega-tech corporation.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No! Shut up, plebe! Nobody asked you!

[–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago

No one ever asks me. :(

[–] aim4harmony@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Imagine them using open source services instead their own ones and addressing the plebs. 🤭