A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

  • paequ2@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

    We’re so doomed. A lot of people will probably buy into this because they can’t possibly be inconvenienced by owning a computer.

    I was talking about AI with someone the other day and they said, “Wow, in the future we probably won’t be able to work without a subscription to ChatGPT. Oh, well.” Like. wat. teh. faq. People see the convenience trap, but can’t be bothered to do anything about it. I hate this timeline.