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"Do users want their own general-purpose personal cloud computer?" No, they do not. General purpose computers, as such, are useless and boring. They are only
by JulianMorrison 11y ago
"Do users want their own general-purpose personal cloud computer?"
No, they do not.
General purpose computers, as such, are useless and boring. They are only useful when converted into one or more appliances. Modern OSes are very good at this. Cloud general purpose compute exists. Its niche to the community of appliance builders, because nobody has any use for it directly.
- fiatjaf 11y ago"in the cloud, all users have is a herd of special-purpose appliances". The argument of the whitepaper is that our current internet and Unix environment does not allow for anything else than a cloud with lots of special-purpose appliances, but that does not mean this is the desirable situation, neither for the appliance builders nor for their users.