Microslop: “We don’t want you running Windows locally anymore.” Okay. (Installs Linux) Microslop: “WAIT NO THAT’S NOT WHAT WE MEAN”
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 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.
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 :-)
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
The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
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