3 ms·
I sympathize. My meditations about this lead me to thinking about waste as well. Why computer at home though? For someone who moves around a lot and doesn't in
by dmos62 7y ago
I sympathize. My meditations about this lead me to thinking about waste as well.
Why computer at home though? For someone who moves around a lot and doesn't invest into "a home", this would be bothersome. Not to mention it's more expensive, in terms of energy and money. I think third-party data centers are fine for self-hosting.
- zelly 7y agoThere's really no difference. Mainly I use a machine at home instead of a data center VM because that's just one less bill to pay. I have two GPUs in there which would be very expensive on public cloud. I guess one reason people might gravitate to home hosting is owning your own disks, the tinfoil hat perspective. You can encrypt volumes on public cloud as well, but it's still on someone else's machine. They could take a snapshot of the heap memory and know everything you are doing.
- dmos62 7y agoI speculate that in the future the trust aspect of using third-party hardware might be solved technologically. And I agree that today the tinfoil sentiment is not baseless.