Re: [Userops] Why is it hard to move from one machine to another? An analysis.

[Bob Mottram]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) wrote:
> So datacenters have probably increased the power used for computations, and
> that may be bad, but still if we are looking at "should I run this particular
> process in my old laptop, my HDMI stick, my Raspberry Pi-equivalent device or
> on a small VPS", the VPS is probably the most efficient.

Energy arguments aside, the user has no control over a datacenter. If they're
running their life from hardware which they don't own and where there is no
prospect of auditing that hardware or ensuring that special boxes have not
been plugged into it then the security model is busted and they're in a
sandboxed liberty situation at the whim of ever-changing TOS, state/corporate
surveillance, etc.