[paraxion]

For some reason I ended up in a discussion with a friend about this; the agreement was that this wasn't a cloud simply because it's a single point of failure and it's not "someone else's computer".

Which of course led to a discussion of whether you could, in principle, make self-contained cloud devices, powered by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, which you could deploy to a) confuse and frighten but b) create a self-managing mesh cloud?

[confident_inept]

"Cloud" has become such a buzzword. The original pitch of cloud service computing was decentralized distribution as a means of service downtime mitigation and redundancy. Here we have someone who dumped a handful of services on an SBC providing a single point of failure which is the complete and total opposite of what a cloud is.

Rant aside, it's pretty great we can plop what was once needed a whole server rack onto a credit card sized device and call it a day but the "cloud" this is not.