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   Cameron Watters (watters@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 05:50:06 JST Cameron Watters

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I was born during the Carter administration, and my sense is that my age peers are trying to squeeze as much juice as they can for themselves out of one last bubble before it pops, in hopes of achieving economic escape velocity.

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 05:58:27 JST HP van Braam

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs It's a weird ebb and flow. It seems every ~10 years or so we go back and forth.

     1 Mainframes
     2 PCs
     3 Terminal servers
     4 Back to PCs
     5 VDI (as in individual desktop VMs on central hardware)
     6 BYOD. Everyone buys their own laptop (PCs again)
     7 Pay-as-you-go AI from OpenAI/Antropic

     There's some more home pc stuff stages as well, like the "gaming in the cloud" thing.

     Corporations just really want us to rent computers. But they always, eventually, become too cheap to rent out.

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