This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Meanwhile, I'm preparing myself to long periods of internet outage and intermittent access.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
We're so doomed. A lot of people will probably buy into this because they can't possibly be inconvenienced by owning a computer.
I was talking about AI with someone the other day and they said, "Wow, in the future we probably won't be able to work without a subscription to ChatGPT. Oh, well." Like. wat. teh. faq. People see the convenience trap, but can't be bothered to do anything about it. I hate this timeline.
I guess there's more than one reason all pc parts are rising at a ridiculous rate
FIFY: Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud - hopes that ~~you'll give up~~ you won't be able to afford a PC and will be forced to rent one from the cloud
Bezos would sell oxygen subscriptions if he could.
I'll go back to cooper wound nails if I have to
As they say in my county: "go and die far from here, so I can't smell you".
Alternative Advice: Buy up old used mini-pcs if hardware is too expensive. Don't buy AWS unless you actually need cloud services (i.e. you're hosting a website).
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.
If China wants to win against these assholes, all they have to do is help develop open alternatives to TSML and ASML and not invade Taiwan so these assholes have to bear the brunt of the AI bubble.
Never ever ever. I learned to code on a 14 year old hp probook. I know how long I can hold out.
They also want our cars, they want our homes, they want our lives.
Fucking parasite.
I'm not sure how, but billionaires need to have their billions forcibly taken and redirected toward the public good. If humanity wants any future other than techno-feudalist fascism we need to figure out how to destroy the global billionaire class permanently within the next few decades or we are gonna be fucked for centuries. You'll rent everything and own nothing, they will bleed everyone dry, and if you rise up to disrupt the system you'll get a robot boot on your neck.
Something something cold, dead hands
So stupid, given how quickly computers have become more powerful and cheaper over time. Local PC hardware will never be antiquated, and is only becoming more important over time.
They gotta do something with all those data centres once the AI bubble pops. Pop pop!
I would rather lower the specs of my network than rent anything from them. If in 2035 I can only afford a raspberry pi 7, so be it.
My answer to that: 🖕
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