Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
Yep, this is unironically the future of computing unfortunately.
Every single “bullshit” advancement you’ve seen so far has been leading up to this. The focus on developing cloud infrastructure, subscriptions services being normalized, and even the metaverse. Eventually, you will own one device and that will be a phone / VR headset. It’ll act as a glorified monitor in AR which connects to a cloud computer to actually do anything. You will literally be unable to have privacy or install software that isn’t approved.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if AI is partially a scam to raise DRAM prices enough to make home computing less affordable.
idk how you could ever get acceptable latency with that kind of setup, but ig that’s the essential problem that cloud gaming is trying to solve. iirc it kinda work OK if you have really good wifi signal or ethernet, but any kind of hiccup is extremely noticeable. here’s to hoping physics is on our side on this one.
Not to be all “um, actually!” but mmo people are basically cloud gaming and the technology to make all the decisions centrally on a server and then communicate their results clearly to the players while also limiting the type of engagement a player can have with the mechanics has been in active development for three decades now.
I use a remote desktop so I can cad on a laptop, and it runs better than it would if it were running locally. Most companies and universities have some sort of remote VM solution so they don’t need to issue ridiculous gaming laptops to everyone who has to run solid works. The technology is here, just not the adaptation.
Capitalism is about making a monopoly and monetizing shitty solutions. Cappies don’t care about terms like ‘ping’. They’ll jack up hardware prices and force people into renting compute.
For the techies in the audience, remember that time when it was microservices everywhere? Nothing convinces me that it wasn’t another demand gen scam for cloud compute, a baby version of the one in the article
Yep, this is unironically the future of computing unfortunately.
Every single “bullshit” advancement you’ve seen so far has been leading up to this. The focus on developing cloud infrastructure, subscriptions services being normalized, and even the metaverse. Eventually, you will own one device and that will be a phone / VR headset. It’ll act as a glorified monitor in AR which connects to a cloud computer to actually do anything. You will literally be unable to have privacy or install software that isn’t approved.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if AI is partially a scam to raise DRAM prices enough to make home computing less affordable.
actually I’ll keep using my computer that I already have
idk how you could ever get acceptable latency with that kind of setup, but ig that’s the essential problem that cloud gaming is trying to solve. iirc it kinda work OK if you have really good wifi signal or ethernet, but any kind of hiccup is extremely noticeable. here’s to hoping physics is on our side on this one.
Not to be all “um, actually!” but mmo people are basically cloud gaming and the technology to make all the decisions centrally on a server and then communicate their results clearly to the players while also limiting the type of engagement a player can have with the mechanics has been in active development for three decades now.
I use a remote desktop so I can cad on a laptop, and it runs better than it would if it were running locally. Most companies and universities have some sort of remote VM solution so they don’t need to issue ridiculous gaming laptops to everyone who has to run solid works. The technology is here, just not the adaptation.
Capitalism is about making a monopoly and monetizing shitty solutions. Cappies don’t care about terms like ‘ping’. They’ll jack up hardware prices and force people into renting compute.
For the techies in the audience, remember that time when it was microservices everywhere? Nothing convinces me that it wasn’t another demand gen scam for cloud compute, a baby version of the one in the article