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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I stg i am going to do an adventure if windows becomes a webservice/os as a service

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh you don't have an Internet connection? Sorry you can't use your OS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

1000 years from now the post apocalypse humans will attempt to learn from our time by analyzing ancient data caches only to discover that they need to create The Internet in order to access them. They will give up. Nothing will have been lost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

might be the only reason some U.S. states are doing "rural broadband initiatives". i mean we know it's not because the state wants to do infrastructure for any greater social purpose

hit some arbitrary percentage of access, fudge it with starlink numbers, declare victory and watch everything move to the cloud.