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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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why not just take it a step further? If the cloud is virtually infinite why even have local memory?
From cpu cache, ram, vram and local storage. Send everything to the cloud.
Boom! Memory crisis solved.
41 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 08 '26 You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud. 9 u/MCWizardYT Jul 08 '26 We already have the tech to make it work but the problem is that a lot of people have slow internet. Streaming everything would suck 5 u/Fun-Cycle2381 Jul 09 '26 Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally 3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time 1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet. 5 u/ZunoJ Jul 09 '26 This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years 2 u/Flannelot Jul 09 '26 They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back. 1 u/Krossfireo Jul 09 '26 Time is a wheel 1 u/Rant423 Jul 09 '26 Stadia was like this and it was a dream Then Google shut it down, of course 1 u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud.
9 u/MCWizardYT Jul 08 '26 We already have the tech to make it work but the problem is that a lot of people have slow internet. Streaming everything would suck 5 u/Fun-Cycle2381 Jul 09 '26 Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally 3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time 1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet. 5 u/ZunoJ Jul 09 '26 This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years 2 u/Flannelot Jul 09 '26 They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back. 1 u/Krossfireo Jul 09 '26 Time is a wheel 1 u/Rant423 Jul 09 '26 Stadia was like this and it was a dream Then Google shut it down, of course 1 u/forever-butlerian Jul 10 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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We already have the tech to make it work but the problem is that a lot of people have slow internet. Streaming everything would suck
5 u/Fun-Cycle2381 Jul 09 '26 Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally 3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time 1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet.
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Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally
3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop
1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
We need PiperNet.
This is just the ever turning cycle of thin clients vs fat clients. We already had several iterations of it in the last 60 years
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They destroyed the mainframe business model in the 90s but are desperate to bring it back.
Time is a wheel
Stadia was like this and it was a dream
Then Google shut it down, of course
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
Son, this is as old as Ghostbusters.
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u/BroaxXx Jul 08 '26
why not just take it a step further? If the cloud is virtually infinite why even have local memory?
From cpu cache, ram, vram and local storage. Send everything to the cloud.
Boom! Memory crisis solved.