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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by gizmo on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:24AM (#36987181)
The alternative to the cloud isn't running a server in the broom closet. It's running (racks of) dedicated hardware in a datacenter. Even "on premise" is often in a datacenter somewhere, and thanks to virtualized networking it's just as if the hardware is in the same building.
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Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem... by theshrike79 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:10PM (#36989523)
The datacenter hardware still needs people to purchase and manage the physical stuff. And those people aren’t exactly cheap.
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