02-13-2024, 10:55 PM
as consumers we need to support physical media 
But yes, the whole thing is built on a house of cards. A lot of it had to do with cheap servers as Amazon, Microsoft Azure etc. were competing heavily on price to become the biggest cloud hosting service and take out all the smaller players. That already started to turn with the COVID demand, followed by the supply chain issues and now the AI boom which is eating up all the server resources and hardware components. Where before gaming and movies were 'subsidized' now the AI stuff is. Rumor has it that Google might leave the Cloud hosting space entirely.
Not to mention all the corpos overdoing it with data protection, GDPR and all that shit. I read somewhere that an enterprise Slack subscription for ~500 users sets you back 78k a month.
It's literally just text messages but apparently corpos demand 24/7 uptime and all information to be saved/retained/logged etc. etc. so they can see when Mike send a sexist meme to Cindy 4 years ago. Meanwhile folks use their 5 year old spare PCs to run 4k Plex streaming servers without a sweat.
But yes, the whole thing is built on a house of cards. A lot of it had to do with cheap servers as Amazon, Microsoft Azure etc. were competing heavily on price to become the biggest cloud hosting service and take out all the smaller players. That already started to turn with the COVID demand, followed by the supply chain issues and now the AI boom which is eating up all the server resources and hardware components. Where before gaming and movies were 'subsidized' now the AI stuff is. Rumor has it that Google might leave the Cloud hosting space entirely.
Not to mention all the corpos overdoing it with data protection, GDPR and all that shit. I read somewhere that an enterprise Slack subscription for ~500 users sets you back 78k a month.
It's literally just text messages but apparently corpos demand 24/7 uptime and all information to be saved/retained/logged etc. etc. so they can see when Mike send a sexist meme to Cindy 4 years ago. Meanwhile folks use their 5 year old spare PCs to run 4k Plex streaming servers without a sweat.