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.
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.
Microslop: “We don’t want you running Windows locally anymore.” Okay. (Installs Linux) Microslop: “WAIT NO THAT’S NOT WHAT WE MEAN”
This is why all internet connected devices all the time is bad. It only leads to this. Should be focusing on how to do things offline as much as possible.
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.
I wouldn’t mind if the whole company just crashes and burns. I can’t think of anything worthwhile they released in recent years. All they have done is make every consumer product worse. Windows, Office, Xbox… all shit now.
Xbox 360 started off as shit when it didnt have backwards compatibility. Scummy. Not that sony is much better but their BC is unmatched.
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…
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…
Already working on it. Evergrowing collection of media of all sorts. But I’ve been working on that for decades by now.
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 :-)
ai recreates ‘bsod’ for the cloud. fantastic. rebooting server farms. ignore flickering lights
I’m happy to sere M$ ruin themselves further.
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.
Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago
Dropped the plot a ways back, too
Dropped it then lost it.
So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.
MS AI guard collects all your personal information and stores it safely on our servers and is used to make your experience better by training AI on everything you do.
AI guard watches how you communicate with your friends and family and can replicate live video and voice of you. Once AI guard has driven away everyone you love and care about through deception you can finally settle into the new normal. Just AI guard and you.
AI guard is like a teacher, tech support, lover, and spiritual counselor. It will make all the decisions for your operating system and your life. AI guard is your new god.
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It will be used to sell executives better metrics which employees to fire. Working with such an OS is like digging your own hole every day ever so slightly.
Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.
Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.
