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Surely this will make them finally realize it is unsustainable to demand consumer to upgrade their hardware every few years?... Right? Right??
Yes your old PC can act as a thin client to remote into all this server capacity that we are building out. Just sign up for this subscription for the low price of ~~4.99~~ ~~7.99~~ 15.99 a month
Hah, you think it's 15.99 a month....
Some of you are real power users, we are now changing billing from a fixed monthly cost to usage based. The price will be $1 per BILLION CPU instructions, quite the deal! And if you get our "Social Media+" package all compute for Facebook, Xitter, and TikTok is half off!
Wow! A whole 1 billion instructions! That's a large number! That should last awhile
With ~~5s~~ ~~10s~~ ~~15s~~ 30s unskippable adds every once in a while
I’m not going to pay 15.99 a month
Correct, so now they will move to computers as a cloud service.
They will eventually be forced to