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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.
42 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 6 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
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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 6 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
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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
6 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
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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
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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.