tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoJeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloudwww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: selfhosting@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1300arrow-down1external-linkJeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloudwww.windowscentral.comtofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: selfhosting@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up37·23 hours agoYeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agoI’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
minus-squareNatanox@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoWay more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now. Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoWe need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
minus-squarefubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoCan you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 hours agoPeople were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser. http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoBut why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 hours agoBecause a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.
Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.
Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
Can you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.
People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.
http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.
But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.