Is it really so far fetched to imagine that most people would most likely be "fine" with renting their full computing solutions from companies like Microsoft and Amazon?
no, esp not if it's either or (like for some FB is internet access). But fully locked down devices and settings will get a liability quickly too that people can't ignore.
The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription
We are already used to this from way before in the late 1990s, w corporate thin clients. afaict that has peaked some time ago already, and offices now tend to have hardware again (laptops usually)?
article on emerging tendency to encourage people to give up PCs and other general purpose computing devices, in favour of cloud and 'dumb' edge hardware. It used to be we aimed to keep all the smart stuff at the edge.
global thin client market still growing, but overall very small: 1.5 billion USD in 2022, 2 billion by 2030.
I have yet to try a local model that handles Bash tool calls reliably enough for me to trust that model to operate a coding agent on my device.
this. Need to understand better conceptually the diff set-ups I have, and how I might switch between them.
The year local models got good, but cloud models got even better
Local models improved a lot in 2025. Mentions Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Small 3, and the Chinese 20-30B parameter models.
SQLite stores all of the data in a single file on the filesystem, which makes it easy to copy or backup the database.
sqlite is a single local file
https://web.archive.org/web/20250413154306/https://tailscale.com/ Tailscale allows your devices remote access to your local network, as a software defined network.
Exolabs.net experiment running large LLMs locally on 4 combined Mac Mini's. Links to preview and github shared code. For 6600-9360 you can run a cluster of 4 Minis locally. Affordable for SME outfits.