Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.

geraintllanfrancheta@hachyderm.io

@terminaltilt over my dead cold hands, jeff #fuckhyperscalers

xs4me2@mastodon.social

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.

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. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/tux.png" title=":tux:" />

Run <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/gnu.png" title=":gnu:" /> or something idk, but Linux users are renting computing powers through SaaSS. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://awkward.place/emoji/stolen/android.png" title=":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

jwi@aus.social

@terminaltilt
My wife is a very aware and private person, so she doesn't want any of our personal information in the cloud.

As a person who stopped doing hands on tech work 20 years ago, I'm amazed that many of my old Unix skills are still current an suitable to run home systems.

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.

shadows@beige.party

@LorenzoBonomelli @terminaltilt will you still like it if they pass laws that enforce on-device scanning of all data on the internet?

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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.