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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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Imagine the unparalleled censorship when the far-right tech elites decide what you can do on "your" computer.
Reverse piracy; "Design and store your copyrightable and patentable ideas in our AI incubators!"
One way or another, major company-backed OSes are moving towards that. Checking all your pictures, messages, videos, audio, for your own good. For now it's creeping on mobile, but don't worry, it'll come to a windows near you soon enough.
Good thing you can uninstall Windows for now, then.
Also, I have a feeling that Bezos' threats to kill the PC (yes, I'm calling them threats because they sound like threats), and the KYC stuff going around are somehow linked.
Bezos' threats against the very existence of the PC could also be construed as a threat against self-hosting, including the Fediverse, and against the existence of alt OSes as well.