• Arancello@aussie.zone
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    25 days ago

    it will be ironic when consumers cant afford the end user devices needed to interact with the AI servers. House of cards??

    • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      25 days ago

      Let me put on my tinfoil hat really quick.

      They want to kill personal computing. You don’t need a full blown computer, you need a fire stick style device that plugs into your monitor and allows you to remotely access the virtual machine you rent from Microsoft on a monthly basis.

      • chrash0@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        this has been “the plan” since 2005. when i was in high school trying to figure out what the heck “cloud computing” was, this is what they were talking about: anything requiring more compute than secure authentication and pixel drawing would be rendered in the cloud and delivered to dumb terminals. this is what netbooks, Chromebooks, and smartphones have been a step towards if not an implementation of.

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        25 days ago

        This is 100% the plan. Also, I would not be suprised if in 5-10 years there are legal limitations on what kind of computing capacity a private person can purchase due to “national security” reasons.

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      25 days ago

      Dumb terminals don’t need much RAM. Unfortunately, the minimal RAM would come with maximum rentiership and exploitation.