That’s fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.
I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We’ve been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.
you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way
Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
You will own nothing and you will be happy. Bezos already laid the ground for this when he mused about everything living in the cloud a while ago. And where things are going with hardware prices, they think they can make it happen sooner rather than later, is my guess.
There is a certain kind of boomer who ended up retiring to a little hobby farm with a couple chickens and maybe a pig or a few sheep…
We are all going to end up with hobby server farms, with a localized coy of Wikipedia backed up, and a file and image server, maybe some email…
Already working on it. Evergrowing collection of media of all sorts. But I’ve been working on that for decades by now.
They will put a stop to this by jacking up prices of hdds insanely high. You will have no choice. Hdds dont last long, and they are being made with worse quality every year.
I guess we can figure out how to chain together 40+ 500gb hdds somehow…
My phone has more power, storage and ram than my 2008 gaming PC had.
My next phone will be a Linux one and if possible it’ll also be my “main PC”, maybe it won’t work that well but today my main PC is a 6500T and it’s enough for me so my hopes are a bit up :-)
Microslop: “We don’t want you running Windows locally anymore.” Okay. (Installs Linux) Microslop: “WAIT NO THAT’S NOT WHAT WE MEAN”
I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.
The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
They are a big company. Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc. *"So please do all your banking and company research in our cloudcomputer… " *- (/s for measure)
Their security is only better if you don’t take into account how attractive they are as a target. lol
Or everything that happens in between.
@Mac @Flying_Lynx or how much they would like insider knowledge of your spending habits. If ai has taught us anything, it’s that the big tech companies want control of your data at all costs
At this point in time you can let AI (for now only Google?) do all your online shopping. (sigh)
DING DONG! Your new jacket has arrived!
Me: wtf?
Me->AI: WTF? AI: I heard you talking about a street jacket. ME: You bought me a straight jacket. AI: A taxi is on it way.
Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc
At this point it’s on purpose by Micro$lop. The SharePoint vulnerability last year was the prime example of that. They fixed the problem on their servers, then told everyone about it, and released a patch.
Everyone at my work hates SharePoint. No idea why we have it when we have actual servers that work far better.
The cloud is just the name for someone else’s Linux computer
Fixed that for you.
Microsoft’s computer
Me prefer maxi hard computer
My(cro$oft’s) Computer
The cloud is the mix of methane and sulfur based compounds that is emitted as flatus.
So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.
Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.
Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.
I’m happy to sere M$ ruin themselves further.
Streaming cloud PC
Now you just need this $500 device that’s about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.
Your PC as a service!
As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone’s data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!
And if you do something we don’t like, we’ll lock you out of your account and all of your data without any recourse!
And it doesn’t work if your ISP decides to shit on you
It‘s really depressing how predictable enshittification has become. Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless.
Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless
This is wrong and that’s the main issue. Most people don’t hate it, they are mostly indifferent and some may even think its a good thing. Most won’t notice any difference.
They actively thank Google for keeping their entire location data (maps timeline), why should it be any different with microslop keeping their files “safe”
Problem- humanity is stupid and lazy, and parents dont teach their kids any better because they dont know how.
There’s no solution. It will be idiocracy mixed with running man in about 10 years, probably less.
I have a solution, is anyone interested?
I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.
It’s not about what the user wants. It’s about what will make the most profit for Microsoft
Ying and Yang. You don’t give us what we want, we don’t buy into it.
We’ll buy POS chinese laptops before we rent a desktop from them.
They clearly forgot what the p in pc means
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
Profit?
Or, ‘P’ as in trickle-down?
“Company”
Reminds me of talking about property with communists. Private property should be abolished, but personal property is different, that you can have, until someone wants it strongly enough for it to be considered private property.
Microslop
Microflop
The article speaks of a “Windows 365 suite of productivity apps” but that doesn’t exist.
There is the “Microsoft 365” suite of office apps, and there is the “Windows 365” offer of a Virtual Machine as SaaS.
It seems the thing that went down was the former and the ill timed announcement concerned the latter.
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune
I have Zorin os on my main laptop and actively migrating my main desktop. Will try to get my kids desktop to Zorin too, his was my test subject for windows 11 and it crashed and burned. Everyday I see more and more issues and performance drops with client computers on win11. One or two I’d chalk up to user errors, but not brand new devices I deploy with 32gb of ram struggling to connect to an RDP session. Fuck windows 11 and all the AI horseshit.
That’s great parenting. My daughter had only known Linux until she started 7th grade this year and got a school windows laptop. She hates that thing with passion. I’m so proud of her 😍
