I am so happy I built a new computer at the end of 2024. It may realistically last me two decades at this rate. I got one decade out of the last build.
The beginning of HaaS (Hardware as a service)
[it is very bad]
Not the beginning, ‘Device as a Service’ has been the buzzword as of late, but basically has been a thing for decades. I remember twenty years ago scratching my head at why the company I worked at paid more to lease desktops for three years than it would have cost to just buy them outright, or even finance them.
The cloud is already a thing.
It ain’t perfect but it’s pretty good and gets better all the time:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/
Get an “old” m1 and rock out. Fuck Apple.
Watch programmers and artists pay for lease.
A lot will. My last company leased their hardware. It cost more in the long run but for reasons I never understood it’s better having expenses paid out of opex versus capex.
Thanks, but no.
Aaaand there we go, as predicted for the lady decade. You won’t own anything and you’ll like it. You will lease pur hardware and we will know everything about you.
Fuck all of this
HAH, how 'bout no!
hahaha, no
Wow! How lucky are we?!! This also happens to coincide with Apple raising chocolate rations from 10 to 8!!!
Lol, no
Any idea when the Chinese RAMs are going to flood enough of the market to lower the price?
Enshittification
MBAs solve yet another case, which other problem will they create and solve, but not really, next time?
The only reason I would do this would be to compile iOS apps, because I am not buying an iMac just for that. Except there’s already services out there that offer the solution, plus I can also access other hardware too.
Kudos to them, if i cannot install my own software anymore and don’t own the hardware, it could be leased as well. /s
