Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version
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Can’t wait for kidney subscription models in our dystopian future.
I rather give up Jeff Bezos and send him in the clouds on a penis rocket.
Fuck you. I refuse to subscribe to everything in my life.
“You’ll own nothing, and be happy” – Some rich asshole
I mean this has been happening for some time now, Google Stadia, Nvidia Now, various hardware manufacturers offering pre-build pc for rent. It just doesn’t work on a larger scale. I don’t need to run everything on ultra where one setting changes how hair are moving while dropping 10% fps. I’m perfectly fine with what I have now, people overall buy less games and if developers want to sell a new one, they may have to actually optimize it again.
I’ll use my current PC till it is a useless hunk of soldered metal before willingly using a virtual cloud setup.
Yeah, that is never going to happen for me hoss.
Given 3 people probably control 90+% of VMs in the cloud, what could possibly go wrong.
I want to see him in the clouds
Stadia worked so well. So Bezos dreams of a world of everyone on Terminals but hooked up to the cloud. Sure.
You know why this won’t work, because the big banks spend hundreds of millions to save milliseconds in transactions so they won’t be interested in undoing all that work.
The other quiet part out loud is that I’ve heard rumors and been in webinars/presentations that there’s a slow trend beginning of enterprises are bringing cloud based apps back on prem because the cost savings and efficiencies promised aren’t coming to fruition.
And like I said before, consumer level Stadia failed and nobody serious wants to use this because of the lag and instability.
Edited: to make clear the cloud to on prem isn’t a general trend but somewhere between rumor and a small but growing trend.
The Great Parasite finds another place to bite.
“You’ll own nothing, like it, and also give up all your privacy when you do.”
Fuckin hell.
INNOVATION! Pay me for something you already had, but don’t worry, my version will be bad and get worse every day through more INNOVATION!
Nah I’m good
‘How about NO’
I mean.. we’re kind of there already. Cost of computers that most people use are cheap and many already store files on cloud.
He is mad because Amazon doesn’t have a slice of that market because they keep making crappy hardware whose only merit is low cost.
This is what they mean by techno-feudalism, when you own nothing and all the devices and services you depend upon are rented out by tech firms, you have no choice but to do as they say.
I just bought baldur’s gate 3 and anno 1800 over christmas which both run great on my 8 year old PC.
Rich assholes severly underestimate my patience and stubbornness.
I hope the entire ai slop and server farm industry collapses.
No thanks, gfy Bezos.
I’d sooner give myself a vasectomy using a tin can lid and some Tito’s vodka while riding in a dune buggy.
That’s why they’re going all in on Amazon Luna, Nvidia Geforce Now, etc.
They want everyone to subscribe to things and not actually own anything.
Our whole lives would be a paid subscription if it’s up to them.
We were born to be more than slaves to the rich. WAKE UP!
No Kings, Tax the rich, Liberty and Justice for ALL!
This article is rage bait and likely ai slop. Bezos made this statement years ago. Article just keeps talking in circles
Oh yes, the same AWS cloud that just works 99.9% of the time except for the past six months where it’s been down for like three total days.
Imagine for a second that you’re ready to do homework/gaming/work/a hobby but you can’t because AWS vibe coded the very service that was supposed to replace your computer.
i thought as much, they are trying to price people out of owning a PC themselves.
Ah yes, the “You will own nothing and be happy” future.
Jeffy B can get fucked and ride his phallic shaped rocket into the sun
Guys who made all their money on the microcomputer revolution would like to go back to mainframes.
This is going to be the end of social mobility. Only people with money will be able to afford computing power and modern ai tools. Those who can’t afford it won’t be able to compete at all. It will be like a bright kid wanting to be a car mechanic but not being able to access books/manuals, tools or a car.
Fuck no, I don’t want that in the slightest.
Ever lose something permanently because an online service disappeared without warning? Imagine that, but it’s the entire contents of “your computer”.
Never mind that anytime AWS, your Internet connection, or *whatever* went down you’d effectively lose “your computer” locally as well as losing whatever online.
The biggest dealbreaker for me, though, is that the cloud hosting involved would almost certainly mean that the host would extract a copyright license over everything uploaded, i.e. everything on “your computer”. If you use a cloud-based “computer” under such an arrangement, the host *de facto* owns everything you make with “your computer”.
Remember: the cloud is just Someone Else’s Computer, hence my repeated quotes on “your computer”. All he’s suggesting is digital feudalism. Under such a system, ~~lords~~ billionaires own the ~~land~~ computers, and you can ~~live on and farm it~~ do your work and play with it as long as you pay your ~~taxes~~ subscription. Ugh.
Something that’s lost on the people advocating for stuff like this.
Gamers, real gamers. The real majority behind the market they want to break into. Will play a 16-bit 2d platformer if it’s fun.
Graphics in general, have already started to become a dog whistle for poor game play. Better the graphics, worse the game respects your time.
Yay! Feudalism for the modern world! Let’s go team peasants. 💪🏻
We’re moving to a society where labor owns nothing. Everything we have will have to be rented from the company store. And only “good” citizens and workers will be allowed to rent.
I consult for mostly Fortune 500 companies to migrate enterprise apps from AWS to Azure and business is booming. Seems like everyone is trying to run away from AWS atm so of course this douche is looking for new ways to justify his cloud services.
If it’s in the cloud, it’s no longer a personal computer
You can pray it from my hands. I grew up building them, I’m not about to rent them.
What a fucking stupid idea
Hey Jeff. Fuck you.
Fuck rent culture
That’s a no. I’ll be hoarding all the old PCs we have and riding those into the ground before I rent one of your little cloud machines, Jeffrey.
I will play board games and read paperback books before subscribing to a pc… fuck them seriously.
Absolutely fucking never
just straight up calling for technofeudalism at this point
Bezos is a dick. But this article is trash, absolute trash. Digging up something he said ages ago, twisting it into something he didn’t say but what the author wants it to mean, and posting it as… news? And I guess most of you didn’t even bother to read the article, you just agree with what you think the title means, or you would have reached that same conclusion. That just leaves downvoting me, I guess.
Suck my nuts.