The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
They are a big company. Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc. *"So please do all your banking and company research in our cloudcomputer… " *- (/s for measure)
Their security is only better if you don’t take into account how attractive they are as a target. lol
@Mac @Flying_Lynx or how much they would like insider knowledge of your spending habits. If ai has taught us anything, it’s that the big tech companies want control of your data at all costs
At this point in time you can let AI (for now only Google?) do all your online shopping. (sigh)
DING DONG! Your new jacket has arrived!
Me: wtf?
Me->AI: WTF? AI: I heard you talking about a street jacket. ME: You bought me a straight jacket. AI: A taxi is on it way.
Or everything that happens in between.
Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc
At this point it’s on purpose by Micro$lop. The SharePoint vulnerability last year was the prime example of that. They fixed the problem on their servers, then told everyone about it, and released a patch.
Everyone at my work hates SharePoint. No idea why we have it when we have actual servers that work far better.
Microsoft’s computer
Microslop
Microflop
Streaming cloud PC
Now you just need this $500 device that’s about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.
Your PC as a service!
As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone’s data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!
And it doesn’t work if your ISP decides to shit on you
And if you do something we don’t like, we’ll lock you out of your account and all of your data without any recourse!
It‘s really depressing how predictable enshittification has become. Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless.
I have a solution, is anyone interested?
Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless
This is wrong and that’s the main issue. Most people don’t hate it, they are mostly indifferent and some may even think its a good thing. Most won’t notice any difference.
They actively thank Google for keeping their entire location data (maps timeline), why should it be any different with microslop keeping their files “safe”
Problem- humanity is stupid and lazy, and parents dont teach their kids any better because they dont know how.
There’s no solution. It will be idiocracy mixed with running man in about 10 years, probably less.
I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!
They clearly forgot what the p in pc means
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
I fucking knew it
They are preparing for a world where we don’t own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it’s too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.
The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.
Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.
They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it’s a lie and I don’t have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.
We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.
Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?
Corporations who want to fire their desktop support team.
Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.
Shareholders are asking for it, since monthly recurring revenue is great for profit sheets.
They run plenty of surveys, but the results go right in the trash.
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
One would hope for a more broad institutional change like schools or workplaces not renewing contracts, but individual action matters too. Closest schools ever got in the US was with Chromebooks, and at least a few places in the EU are ditching MS for better options.
It might be some kind of bias playing tricks on me, but it really gives me the impression that since those corporations started embracing ai and claiming that they use high percentages of it in their work, some trend of things stopping working has been on the rise. I swear those services from big companies used to be considered so highly available and stable, that people would be incredulous if they stopped.
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
Every time they tout this shit i just envision Citrix lurking in the corner in a trenchcoat with a shitload of patents and an evil little grin.
For a while there it look like Microsoft was changing from the EEE company of the 90s. They couldn’t pretend they knew what they were doing for very long though and here we are. They evolved from evil and stupid to just stupid.
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 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.
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
