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[–] Veltoss@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Once we have super fast reliable internet we'll likely have the whole computer as a service. We'll just have access terminals basically and a subscription with a login, except for the nerds who want their own physical machine.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bro just reinvented mainframes.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

They've been reinvented repeatedly. Citrix, terminal servers, thin clients, cloud desktops, web apps, remote app delivery......

Most people (not necessarily here) need a web browser and an office program. Most people are well suited to terminals or something like a Chromebook.

I need actual hardware for my job and hobbies, but even I have a mini PC set up like a gaming console so that if I want to play games on my bedroom TV I don't have to hook up my Steam Deck or gaming laptop. I just stream them.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

& thin clients

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

No. Just no.

And get off my lawn, ya whippersnapper.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

RAM as a service can't happen. It's just far too slow. The whole computer can though. It's RAM can be local so it can access it quickly, then it just needs to stream the video over, which is relatively simple if creating some amount of latency to deal with.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mhmm... Computer as a service. Why does that sound familiar...?

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to hand it to the French though, that stuff was pretty dope.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I was there, Gandalf. I was there, three thousand years ago.

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given how so many of us communicate, work, and compute using cloud platforms and services, we’re basically already there.

How many apps are basically just a dumb client using a REST API?

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

you will own nothing and be happy!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, we already had that in the 70s.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to know that some dinosaur at ibm is screaming about how they gave up the centralized computer and is salivating over gigabit fiber so he can charge everyone 15 bucks a month to use an ibm mainframe.

Stadia almost didn’t suck, I bet we’re 10 years from phones just being hand terminals that tap into a local server and desktops won’t be far behind.

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly like the expanse.

Fucking love those books, am listening to one now.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you seen the Amazon show at all? How did you feel about it?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m happy it happened and gave us up to book 6 on the little screen.

The show runners for both the syfy and Amazon seasons were the original writers, so everything is very true to their vision of the story. I’m only sad that they didn’t get to finish the final few books on television. The whole series is a Masterpiece of hard science fiction.

[–] bufordt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

For many of us Stadia didn't suck at all, except for the game library and Google lack of commitment.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

sweaty gamers and nerds as always unite over having proper physical PCs rather than online services or consoles.

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

That's exactly how it works right now with VDI. I'm using one at work.

[–] FUsername@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given the digital literacy of many "regular people" (e.g. my father, and seemingly every other of my friends), the idea is appealing. Especially, as most of them don't care about privacy. Give them decent availability, and they will throw money at you. And if you also give them support, I will, too.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, cloud gaming is very good… when it is good. Sometime it suck. But when it’s good it’s incredible how much it feels like gaming locally.

[–] porksoda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago