You do not seem to be familiar with Rob Pike. He is known for major contributions to Unix, Plan 9, UTF-8, and modern systems programming, and he has this to say about his dream setup[0]:

> I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them solve. Also, storage on one machine means that machine is different from another machine. At Bell Labs we worked in the Unix Room, which had a bunch of machines we called "terminals". Latterly these were mostly PCs, but the key point is that we didn't use their disks for anything except caching. The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that.

[0]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/

I don't know his history, but he sounds like he grew up in Unix world where everything wanted to be offloaded to servers because it started in academic/government organizations..

Home Computer enthusiasts know better. Local storage is important to ownership and freedom.

I wonder how 2012 Rob Pyke would feel about 2025 internet and resource allocation?

I do recognize his name and knew him as a major creator of Go and contributor to UNIX and Plan 9, but didn’t know this quote.

In which case he’s got nothing to complain about, making this rant kind of silly.