Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@terminaltilt this has been my thought for some time. The jacking up of prices being not just a market effect byproduct, but an intentional strategy to kill personal computing.

[filobus@sociale.network]

@terminaltilt and if you really have to go cloud, don't go to them, don't surrender and become their captive

[licho@kolektiva.social]

@terminaltilt the difficult part starts when they jack up the prices of components the way we see it happen with ram. It's artificial, there were analyses that it was bought for money that are not there to be put in graphics cards that don't exist in data centers that aren't built yet in response to demand that is yet to come.

So they can push us out from the local computation with price. Or at least make it an upper middle class thing.

[aanee@mastodon.online]

@terminaltilt Good luck with that. There haven't been a real reason to upgrade hardware the last 10 years, and I don't see a need for the coming years either. Unless you want to tinker with ML models and burn the earth. Sure business buys new, people buy new, cause compile time/fps "go brrrr". But if you skew the "go brrr"/cost metric... well, let's say I hope for their sake the AI bubble doesn't do as all of us want and burst like a money eating black hole at a piñata party.

[frchazzz@mastodon.social]

@grumble209 @terminaltilt If it hasn't been made yet, I really want a t-shirt (and stickers) with the "Seize the Means of Computation" slogan!

[geraintllanfrancheta@hachyderm.io]

@terminaltilt over my dead cold hands, jeff #fuckhyperscalers

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@terminaltilt

I wont do it!

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

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

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@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.

[andre_ourednik@mastodon.social]

@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

[kuniti_shino@pounced-on.me]

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

[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@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@mastodon.social]

@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.

[cnx@awkward.place]

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

@terminaltilt@climatejustice.social, 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@mastodon.social]

@terminaltilt

Never waste a crisis!

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

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

[mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org]

@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

[mpiscaer@mastodon.social]

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

[lorenzobonomelli@mastodon.social]

@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

[snep@y.diskcat.com]

@cnx @terminaltilt

> but Linux users are renting computing powers through SaaSS.

Please elaborate how