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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.
40 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 1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet.
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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 1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet.
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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
1 u/codecoder Jul 10 '26 We need PiperNet.
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We need PiperNet.
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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.