Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

[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

[cnx@awkward.place]

Already did in that comment, but since I can't rule out custom emoji inaccessibility issues, Imma spell it out for thee, @snep@y.diskcat.com: Android Google/Linux.

Cc: @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social

[snep@y.diskcat.com]

@cnx @terminaltilt So your comment isn't regarding Linux distributions as a whole, you're rather referring to Linux kernels running underneath Android *specifically?

[cnx@awkward.place]

Yea @snep@y.diskcat.com, I was replying to @terminaltilt@climatejustice.social 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.