Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/1/24 3:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 04:19:07 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Anyway ... I don't see the Server-Lords keen on any server-side
'web-PY'. They want YOUR box to do all the hard work. In time they're
gonna take away even PHP. Just watch .....

 I see it going the other way: the only way online services can control
your experience to their liking is if your machine becomes just a dumb
terminal with minimal autonomous functionality.

   Oddly, we're almost describing the same thing.
   IMHO they *do* want you to be a *barely* competent
   thin client ... "barely" is all that's required.
   Even on a gigabit connection, modern CPUs with
   not all that much RAM are "barely adequate" enough
   to handle most web stuff.
   Even a Pi4 is "barely competent enough" for web stuff.
   The dirt-cheapest $300 laptops on Amazon - kinda low-
   end/power i3 derivs (have a couple) are way good enough.
   Have a few BeeLink/BMax boxes - again those kinda sub-i3s -
   and they'll do most anything Web fairly snappy.
   They do NOT want yer PC to be "overly competent"
   because then you might have the zip to go around
   their control somehow or be able to install good
   software that'd detect their spy schemes in
   real time.
   So, there are kinda two takes on this ... but the
   Overall Plan is to go back to client/server as
   much as possible so they can charge by the byte
   AND have fair control/spying over those bytes.