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GenThePerservering

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7. "The cloud is just somebody else's computer, and they're incompetent idiots."

Reply to Tasmanian Devil (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:32 AM

Thursday

Exactly. Try explaining that to people that 'the cloud' isn't anything but somebody else's server farm. But oh, no - they think it's some sort of nebulous ur-world where data floats around like molecules. One woman patiently explained to me that "No no...you can just grab something from here...from there..anywhere in The Cloud! It's the future of ecommerce!" (I'm a merchant by trade).

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