Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

I_give_u_worms

@terminaltilt
this dude will take business losses long enough to keep competitors heads underwater

I_give_u_worms

@licho @terminaltilt
shitty wages have meant people choose, have a phone (the latest phone, because that's what they can figure out, which costs as much as a computer, spread over months or years) and maybe get a tablet/notebook/computer

IPads turn to a brick over a couple years, they just stop playing videos and slow to a frustrating crawl.

Android has disabled the data capability of the USB cable for the most part, in order to keep people closer to monthly storage charges.

André Ourednik

@terminaltilt As much as I abhore anything that Jeff does and represents, I see an environmental point in a rental model. In the sense that ownership of hardware in a programmed obsolescence industry model is ecologically worse. Most people run their daily apps on massively overpowered individual machines, produced at huge environmental cost. And I see potential in sharing hardware here. But definitely not on AWS. Rather local hubs, something like a decentralized network of remote processors

inamruzui | vessels birthday in 7 days

@terminaltilt there's a reason why I prefer my steamdeck and valve hardware over this bullshit

A_Minion

@andre_ourednik @terminaltilt So what you see is basically the same as solar and wind power being produced locally. Personally I like that model far better than the rental idea as it takes power away from the few making it far more democratic for "We The People".

TrimTab 🇺🇦

@terminaltilt Bezos is the alternate universe inverse evil version of Patrick Stewart.... Utterly cruel, greedy, narcissistic, and uncharismatic.

Please send Bezos back into the worm hole, to the shitty universe that made him.

meek cynics

You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

Terminal Tilt, this already happened, through the form of applications that are thin clients to SaaSS.

Run Linux. :tux:

Run :gnu: or something idk, but Linux users are renting computing powers through SaaSS. :android:

hnapel

@terminaltilt

Never waste a crisis!

Nicovel0 🍉

@terminaltilt those people have no new ideas, Bezos just reinvented the mainframe.

Internet Rando

@terminaltilt When people see me on here saying "Local-first Software Principles should be the fucking law", this is what I'm talking about.

#CassandraComplexGoneWild

Michiel Piscaer

@terminaltilt not only that, but how it is going right now. Is that it gives power to the 1%

Lorenzo Bonomelli

@terminaltilt
Honestly, I really like cloud computing and cloud storage.
Since we’re almost always connected to the internet, it’s an incredibly useful solution.

I'd be happy to pay a subscription fee if:
1) my data is properly encrypted
2) my data stays on a European server
3) my money doesn't go to a dictatorship country (such as where Bezos lives)
4) the system I'm using is FOSS

meek cynics

Already did in that comment, but since I can’t rule out custom emoji inaccessibility issues, Imma spell it out for thee, Snep :floofHappy:: Android Google/Linux.

Cc: Terminal Tilt

JW

@terminaltilt
My wife is a very aware and private person, so she doesn't want any of our personal information in the cloud.

As a person who stopped doing hands on tech work 20 years ago, I'm amazed that many of my old Unix skills are still current an suitable to run home systems.

meek cynics

Yea Snep :floofHappy:, I was replying to Terminal Tilt who claimed using Linux is a solution against SaaSS, when it’s really about empowering everyone with a free software. Linux is not a politically important part of GNU/Linux distributions (and GNU implementations too for that matter, but at least the GNU project, unlike the Linux Foundation, isn’t advocating for proprietary software and SaaSS). Neither do GNU/Linux distributions hold a significant market share of Linux, most of which being Android that many people are already using.

shadows

@LorenzoBonomelli @terminaltilt will you still like it if they pass laws that enforce on-device scanning of all data on the internet?

Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋[FCKPVV]

@terminaltilt They are closing in: Big Tech is on the prowl of ALL of your data. And flooding the internet with all their AI infested cloudware, they can respond with ever so heavily manipulated lies and bogus selling it to you as facts and truth, regardless whatever you were searching for on that web. That fake reality will warp anything more strongly than a supermassive black hole.

Lorenzo Bonomelli

@shadows @terminaltilt

Well, I'm not an IT expert, so I'm not sure I got what you said to me

Isn’t data encryption on servers enough to keep my files reasonably safe from everyone, including the hosting company?

If the system were FOSS, could a law force the provider to insert a decryption backdoor without the user knowing?

In short terms: is on-device scanning for such systems technologically feasible?

Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋[FCKPVV]

@LorenzoBonomelli
But someone else defines issues 1) thru 4) for you. They own your data then. Your data is on THEIR computer.
@terminaltilt

Tim

@terminaltilt and then as I've just found with FB, if you become persona non grata they can just erase your entire existence really easily. Easier to control citizens if their data is on servers they don't control.

Wandering Adventure Party

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud