Once we have super fast reliable internet we'll likely have the whole computer as a service. We'll just have access terminals basically and a subscription with a login, except for the nerds who want their own physical machine.

It'll never be fast enough. An SSD is orders of magnitude slower than RAM, which is orders of magnitude slower than cache. Internet speed is orders of magnitude slower than the slowest of hard drives, which is still way too slow to be used for anything that needs memory relatively soon.

You can do it today, just put your swapfile on sshfs and you're done.

So I could download more RAM?

A:\SPICYMEMES\MODEMSOUND.WAV

This guy used ICMP data payload as a hard drive. It kinda worked.

So is pretty much all of the cloud services the average user already subscribes to. People still use them though.

They don't to my knowledge, I believe that's mounted through rclone which just usually sets the filesystem size to 1PB so that it doesn't have to try to query what the actual limit is for the various providers (and your specific plan).

Once upon a time, Google offered unlimited drive storage as part of some GSuite tiers. They stopped offering it a while ago and have kicked most/all legacy users off of it in the past few months. It was glorious while it lasted 😢

Don't do boy zram dirty, it has a ton of utility when you have ample spare compute and limited RAM.

Doesn't it compress the contents that it's storing to help kind of get the best of both worlds?

You get faster storage because it's in ram still, but with it being compressed there's also "more" available?

I could be completely mistaken though

What did they produce? Cruiseships?

Why stop at just one full table scan?