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.

  • orioler25@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Though this is all motivated by capitalistic expansion, it’s also worth noting that liberals have been trying to eliminate the dissent facilitated through online activism and information campaigns for a few years now. Ownership over our PCs means that there can always be an internet operated and monitored by us.

  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    Step 1: Raise sales prices artificially Step 2: Create affordable alternatives to rent. Step 3: Wait until enough people claim that its cheaper and more comfortable to just rent. Step 4: Wait until maket is destroyed. Step 6: Raise prices.

    “You will own nothing and you will be happy”

    • BlackRock
  • Fokeu@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Could is just a fancy word for giving up your freedoms. You rely on some greedy corporation and for what? What would the benefit even be?

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    17 hours ago

    Murica is a deranged shithole. Linux is our only way out of this. To all hardware manifacturers: Build your goddamn drivers for it and free us!

    ~cry in the capitalist vacuum…

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    16 hours ago

    Well chucklefuck you need a basic PC to act as the client. You know what kind of computer most people have? A shitty PC good enough to be the fuckin client. Why would they want to pay for a shitty pc to rent another one when they can just use the fucking shitty PC they bought at walmart for 300 for 8 fuckin years like they do now? That is $3 a month amortized beat that bitch.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Everything a subscription. You’ll own nothing and like it!

    And, people, I can’t stress this enough, FUCK JEFF BEZOS!

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    19 hours ago

    Internet and access to servers is the first thing that govts turn off when they get uppity.

    Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.

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    16 hours ago

    Weird. You would think that the “genius” would know that the very AI and Quantum computing his organization and other Billionaires are building out, is going to undermine anything of value that is Centralized. Really proof his genius is how to exploit others and not really the reality we are finding ourselves in. I am LOL inside as the shift back to decentralized services will be a bloodbath for Centralized anything.

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    21 hours ago

    Why in the fuck did we move away from mainframes and dumb terminals in the first place, Bozes? Now back to that, but… cloud based, and we pay you to fuckin own everything? Get bent!

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    19 hours ago

    Genuenly I refuse to use cloud PCs, I don’t give a fuck how “cheap” they are or how “convenient” they are I ain’t using it. If there is still hardware being produced that works with Linux I’m buying it, if no hardware exists I’m gonna keep using my old hardware until new hardware that does support Linux comes out.

    The only thing that’s gonna be replaced is capitalism and by extension the capitalist class.