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Future death of the personal computer?

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David Graser:
My problem with the cloud is that one is storing their personal and business information on someone else's server.    I want none of my info on anyone else's computer but my own, even if it is more work to do so.

Dave Yeo:
It is handy for stuff that you don't mind being public such as GPL source code. Also you can encrypt stuff before putting it on a cloud.

Hakuchi:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on February 20, 2020, 09:46:27 pm ---It is handy for stuff that you don't mind being public such as GPL source code. Also you can encrypt stuff before putting it on a cloud.

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Yeah. Make encrypted slices of compressed archive and stuff it into do-no-evil 10gb per slice ... or just make proper zip-bombs and put those in there and see how the beast likes them when crunching through your bits and bytes :D

David Kiley:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on February 20, 2020, 05:58:19 pm ---Many of our applications are out of date, and better handled by more modern software. All the latest versions are cloud-based and eventually trickle back down to the PC. But I'm used to the OS/2 apps, so I only change when I have to.

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Well I envy your lack of attachment  to older software and maybe even os/2 from the sounds of it. Personally I love certain old software like smartsuite, so don't see myself changing from it unless I really have to.

When I was younger I felt technology was always moving forward and making progress (with personal computers,  the Internet, PDAs and then smartphones) but I feel like in the last 5-10 years it has really gone a direction I don't consider progress,
Before personal computers, people had to rent usage of shared computer resources on workstation and mainframes.
The whole idea of the personal computer was to give you your own computing resources that you owned.
So it ironically seems to be back sliding to renting computing resources again, which doesn't seem like progress to me.

Devices like Alexa also seem silly to me, like it gives little real return and instead just pushes consumerism. Whereas the PC actually made a difference in the lives of regular people, with things like spreadsheets, organizational software, word processing, research applications, drawing and image editors etc. The Alexa on the other hand adds very little real value, like no one really needs a device that can turn on music when you just have to click play on your phone.. or it can turn on your lights as if it is difficult to hit a switch. Just really don't see the appeal.

David Kiley:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on February 20, 2020, 05:58:19 pm ---I'm concerned about privacy, but it's not like OS/2 has any protection against snooping.

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Isn't OS/2 generally considered pretty secure?

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