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Re:Crazy New Ideas by paulgb on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:19AM (#27062105)
Sure, but the disconnect seems to be that Mighty is advertised for people who essentially use their browser as an OS (I see Figma mentioned a lot), rather than people who just want to do basic browsing.

I think Mighty has unfairly taken the brunt of a lot of growing discontent with bloat on the web. I'm not ready to fork over $30+ for faster browsing, but I'm glad someone is working in this space, because I genuinely would like to rent a fast virtual computer for the occasional video editing task and think Mighty is a step in that direction.

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by tsimionescu on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:15PM (#27065452)
> I genuinely would like to rent a fast virtual computer for the occasional video editing task and think Mighty is a step in that direction.

Can't you already do that pretty easily on AWS or Azure?

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by paulgb on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:34PM (#27065755)
At minimum it seems like I’d have to choose an instance size, an OS that was compatible with my software, install the editing software, mount a common storage location with my footage, etc.

What I’d like to see is a service that let me add my credit card, click a button, and launch a video editor on a high-RAM machine that I pay for the hour (including the software license fee).

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by ta_ca on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:06PM (#27069046)
unfairly? privacy concerns aside they just added another huge abstraction on top of an already huge pile of shit we call modern web.
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