So can we like, talk about the fact that like, consumer hardware ownership is literally being killed by Big Tech and Governments are A-OK with it, under the pretext that it's "bad for the environment". They're hiking prices and making unreasonably power-hungry components in order to make statistical research that shows that "consumption of power across the world is killing the planet. We must centralize the power in data-centers and force them to use Cloud computing only, goyim!"once again, Governments will be on board with this, whether they have a corporate or a democratic interest, because they can pitch it as "necessary to stop climate change." I predict that by 2030 they will enable new laws that start to pair down consumer ownership of power-hungry devices. Eventually police will run check-ups on private households and confiscate anything that uses more than 500W, and they're really rapidly starting to reveal that this is where it's going. Blocking sideloading, encroaching GitHub with age verification. Just all the "online safety" in general being a way to lock down the internet.Next you know, the internet becomes too shitty to use so people say "Fine! I'll just stay offline and hoard all my emulators and localhosted stuff!" but then you hear news that say it will become illegal to own Personal Computers, which people then say is fine because they stopped selling them, because the hardware got so "expensive" that people stopped buying it, so PCs are just not sold anymore.You know?
Cory Doctorow warned about the coming war on general purpose computing several years ago.The war is over, they won.
>>107785042Who is this?
Can you like, go seek a like, cliff?
