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There’s not much more else to push towards, Xerox pretty much figured it all out in the 70s. End users don’t use operating systems, they’re a burden of securit

There’s not much more else to push towards, Xerox pretty much figured it all out in the 70s. End users don’t use operating systems, they’re a burden of security vulnerabilities and compatibility issues. If I had to round it out, the tech industry as a whole would prefer we all do everything in browsers over the cloud. Disregarding freedom and privacy, I would prefer things to be that way.

thsksbd 3y ago
"Disregarding freedom and privacy, I would prefer things to be that way." Reliability too. The cloud is 99.9999 reliable until your power, therefore your internet cuts off. Your local office, or emacs, or whatever, will gladly chug along until the M1's battery drains
- pipeline_peak 3y ago
  That’s pretty much someone in 1900 going, “so what happens when yer fancy electricity runs out? I’ve got candles for days!”
  - thsksbd 3y ago
    Well, Ive had to buy a fancy generator and powerful LED flashlights because my fly-over America town's infrastructure has terrible reliability. Not that Im in a bad neighborhood: I just realized I might be the only one in my block that doesn't have a luxury vehicle. 8 year old Hyundai and 10 year old Golf for me in a sea of Mercs, BMW, Lariats and Lexuses. Of course, I must be poor. I have a portable, Chinese clone 7000 kW gen that only feeds 6 circuits and sounds like a pneumatic gun. Half my neighbors have full-house automatic, natural gas fed GENERACs.
qubex 3y ago
The cloud and browsers is a truly miserable paradigm. Serfdom and a thick client with an absurd amount of chrome and a dumb multitasking interface (tabs). What on Earth is enticing about any of this? I see people using Google Docs and/or Office in the browser, and they’re contending with a UI rendered underneath a browser UI and it all looks so cramped and of course eventually somebody instinctively clicks the back button to undo something and all hell breaks loose.

thsksbd 3y ago

"Disregarding freedom and privacy, I would prefer things to be that way." Reliability too. The cloud is 99.9999 reliable until your power, therefore your internet cuts off. Your local office, or emacs, or whatever, will gladly chug along until the M1's battery drains

pipeline_peak 3y ago
That’s pretty much someone in 1900 going, “so what happens when yer fancy electricity runs out? I’ve got candles for days!”
- thsksbd 3y ago
  Well, Ive had to buy a fancy generator and powerful LED flashlights because my fly-over America town's infrastructure has terrible reliability. Not that Im in a bad neighborhood: I just realized I might be the only one in my block that doesn't have a luxury vehicle. 8 year old Hyundai and 10 year old Golf for me in a sea of Mercs, BMW, Lariats and Lexuses. Of course, I must be poor. I have a portable, Chinese clone 7000 kW gen that only feeds 6 circuits and sounds like a pneumatic gun. Half my neighbors have full-house automatic, natural gas fed GENERACs.

qubex 3y ago

The cloud and browsers is a truly miserable paradigm. Serfdom and a thick client with an absurd amount of chrome and a dumb multitasking interface (tabs). What on Earth is enticing about any of this? I see people using Google Docs and/or Office in the browser, and they’re contending with a UI rendered underneath a browser UI and it all looks so cramped and of course eventually somebody instinctively clicks the back button to undo something and all hell breaks loose.