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themurphyThis is goind exactly as planned by big tech.
They dont want you to own your own hardware. They dont want local storage. They want to control EVERYTHING.
When personal computing is expensive enough, they will offer remote access to their server space, where you rent some specs and the screen (your computer access) is projected to you via internet.
Then they’ll earn the subscription money, and they own every single log file and data on “your” computer.
As soon as this is the cheapest option by a margin, they WILL get costumers. No doubt. And it’s awful.
This assumes really good internet infrastructure and still requires some sort of terminal at the user end. Of course, Bezos is a billionaire and so might be dumb enough to believe it himself.
They’ll subsidize cheap locked down thin clients that can do jack shit by themselves except make an RDP connection to a VM.
I was going to say, thin clients are nothing new at all. And they’re already practicing with thin terminal deliveries with TVs these days