Re:Crazy New Ideas
by meheleventyone on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:54AM
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> Not only that but a great amount of people here live in a literal tech bubble and we believe that everyone has a reasonably fast laptop or can setup a large workstation.
By that same token the average persons browsing habits are also not the same. Optimising for Chrome power users who have eleventy billion tabs open and run hefty web apps isn’t the normal usecase. My families browsing is mostly taken care of on a 2012 MBP and a couple of ancient iPads. Mighty would be functionally useless for us.
Heck my entire day is spent in Chrome working in Drive and writing code in our own development environment in our web app. I am a browser power user in that sense on a three year old gaming laptop and I don’t understand the Mighty usecase. It’s a niche within a niche at the moment although I understand the appeal of the business model.
The business model is obvious. Data. The new petrol.
The use case is the question. The general trend against personal computing. The naïveté of todays startups and VC in general.
But this is nothing new. It will pass, some people will get rich, some will lose money.
Do I like it? No. Do I care? No. Why? Because I have learned my life lessons well. If something survives as tech standard, it will be used. So I focus my attention on not being early adopter on any kind of tech.
Chromebooks maybe?
Re:Crazy New Ideas
by schmorptron on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:51AM
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Geforce now or even renting an entire computer with shadow is for graphics performance, and is not 30 bucks a month. You also won't be entering any sensitive data while playing games.
I think it's a cool thing they've done, but it requires you to put full trust into them as a company.
Re:Crazy New Ideas
by hoppyhoppy2 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:53AM
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We have a game streaming service from Google, too (Stadia)... which is apparently struggling.
Not only that but a great amount of people here live in a literal tech bubble and we believe that everyone has a reasonably fast laptop or can setup a large workstation.