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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 years ago by timeslip1974@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's funny how the pendulum swings, first people would never let other people have their files, then they invested wholesale in cloud computing, now they are seeing the downtimes and expense and are backing off.

Same thing with client/server, had it in mainframe days, then got away from it with PCs, now we have Chromebooks and Microsoft wants Windows to run from the cloud, which is basically back to client/server again.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it's way too much computing power for my self host needs. I'd have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

My parents have a plethora of old office PC's, so I can't even imagine how people pay those priced to not even own the hardware.

An RPI can even fairly easily be solar powered if that's ever a concern