Is there seriously a risk of personal computing dying and you can only get shitty arm devices with emmc storage amd soldered parts that can only be used to access Jeff bezos cloud storage and all your data will be stolen and used to train AI?
>>108770785They probably want to do that, but it would have to be incremental. Trying to get people to buy shit like terminals and you have to subscribe to some service to login and use an operating system. I mean a terminal approach means they can data mine you entirely. I don't see it happening anytime soon though, and I wouldn't comply anyway.
>>108770785It was common in the 1970s for men to rebuild their own engine or even replace it with something better. When's the last time you heard someone talk about rebuilding their engine at home? Sure, it still happens but it's very niche these days.
>>108770800I don't know man most people these days are apple cattle. they already pay out the ass for a small amount of shit storage on non repairable devices that can only stream.
>>108770800Microsoft recently released a client-server version of Windows that uses special boxes built by Dell or Lenovo that connect to a centralized Windows server. The idea is to give IT department admins complete control over the company's computers as the thin clients will have no local storage or offline capabilities. Sun and several others have tried something similar over the year but that was back when networks were far slower and the architecture of the system was quite basic.
>>108770800>Trying to get people to buy shit like terminals and you have to subscribe to some service to login and use an operating system.Don't forget subsiding the shit out of it so it's really cheap.
>>108770824>Microsoft adds that Windows 365, Link, and the upcoming third-party Cloud PCs are being adopted by organizations running critical workloads in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and other industries. The company also suggests that additional Cloud PC models could arrive later this year.>Windows CPC is a stripped-down version of Windows 11 that functions primarily as a Remote Desktop client for the Windows 365 virtual machine service. Even so, Microsoft continues to issue periodic updates to the mini OS. The next patch cycle, scheduled for the second quarter of 2026, will introduce support for pairing Bluetooth devices during the out-of-box experience (OOBE), as well as tenant branding options such as custom wallpapers, logos, and organization names displayed on the sign-in screen.It's Asus, not Lenovo, that is making the thin clients for Windows 365, in addition to Dell.
>>108770800They're going after businesses first and will later expand to the home market once the public is accustomed to the concept. For places like hospitals that are constantly dealing with malware because nurses are morons who can't be trusted to not install some stupid shit on whatever random computer they touch, centralization will likely be a good thing.
I will put a bullet in any nigger who dares to touch my i5-2600k
>>108770785The cat of suffering
The second the corpos can force it, they will.
>>108770800>but it would have to be incremental.It already is incremental, they're already doing it my dude
>>108770785Only criminals use fully unrestricted computers
>>108770785I don't know if that thread is still up but recently jewgle started mandating smartphone usage through recaptcha, requiring you to scan a qr code>t. still not buying a (((smart)))phone
>>108771226at some point won't even normies refuse to go along?
>>108771250Normies don’t even own non-smartphone computers anymore
>>108770785The demand for general purpose "battle stations" and control is not going away. We can draw a very broad line from home assistant people, to professionals to gamers wanting to repurpose hardware, to STM32 projects etc etc. The power that comes with is so basic and open standards are such a no-brainer for any hands on students or engineer. Once you get closer to basic logic, you're not going to run an AI assistant just to turn your sprinklers on or off. People say we are becoming sheep, well enshittification awareness and loss of effective control are in people's minds right now. Corporate trust is low. RISC V came back after decades. The pendulum is already on it's way back. Open source is always 20 years behind, but that's good enough in many cases.When you consider that 20 years is about the time it takes patents to expire, with a broad scope, it's really about a tech and patent race between a few companies. The problem is that it's 20 years and that patent overlap and manufacturers are incentivized to obfuscate information, so old hardware is essentially just what we are getting by with, and not what we want. This will continue until somebody who is not a part of the tech and patent race disturb the market, saving billions on not doing R&D and manufacturing cost going down.Keep in mind that consumer market is driven 99 % of normies. Enterprise market is complicated and also drives the market. Enthusiast market effectively doesn't exist, but instead hitch their wagons to either of these drivers, making the economies of scale work in our favour. Linux for example is in a goldilock zone of normie conversion, driven by enterprise and repurposing of existing hardware. So what about hardware?
>>108771280so they use a second phone to go through?
>>108771301I would say it's looking pretty good. It's a meme at this point, but gaming does not need much more performance. This means that we can get by with the compute trade-off of a more modular system, and it can only get better. The more stuff we get into this general compute category, and the more niches we can get into the same architecture and same'ish PC, the more staying power and likelihood of being served by industry increases. Right now a lot of basic microcontroller type stuff does not need a lot of compute, and rather power efficiency, but the more stuff we run on the same computer, the more sense it makes to run a beefier general computer. If you're running multipile 3D printer (at home manufacturing), home assistant, torrents, media etc...you get the point. Getting back to the point, that computer does not need whatever latest patent is being used to cuck us. The tech time to settle, and innovation then starts at a more grassroot level.Another point is national security. EU does not make a lot of stuff, but they feel the cuckness, especially with WW3 around the corner and then couple that with the brussel effect. You might not like regulation and you might extremely blackpilled, but the EU is not winning a lot by the buying and selling of data. It seems like they are waking up to open standards and open source. Stop killing games is also a citizen initiative which is a symptom of the effective loss of control. If China comes along, I'd say things are looking pretty good here.Finally consider that when the average consumer is getting poorer (which we are) AND companies are no longer focusing on the consumer (datacenters, AI etc), they are effectively creating the perfect conditions for a disruption. Keep in mind that there are categories of companies making stuff a bit too shitty for us, and they just need to take one step up to service us.
>>108771333you obviously won't get the qr code captcha on a phonethe whole point is to move people from PC's to (((smart)))phones
>>108770785This wont happen because of supply and demand. The economic illiteracy is grim.
>>108771392And just as another insufferable addendum to the people pissing their pants about AI leading to dystopian technofeudalism? Nigger, these people are trying to rent you a printer, which you already have in your house. The LLM companies are going to be squeezed so hard between shareholder pressure and negative consumer sentiment, that no commercialization strategy is going to be viable. Even if the data collection pays for (which it wont), Ursula just need singular tittyslap to end that.We are about to see entrepreneurship like you wouldn't believe and people are going to become much better at avoiding being cucked. Marketing as well. The one model that actively hides the best result is going to pretty easy to spot.The actual real danger is regulatory capture by companies IMO, but we also kind of waking up to that in the EU, so we'll see. If the US starts riding around in affordable DYI cars, then it's going to be hard to not have a deregulation agenda (which EU is already having BTW).
>>108770814I tend to have that in the back of my mind too, but recently I saw a newspaper article about end user car engine maintenance becoming more of a priority again. At least here in the EU.
>>108770814That's not entirely intentional. It's just a lot harder to repair a dual overhead camshaft engine than a pushrod engine. The few American cars and trucks who are still made with engines in that old style tend to be much easier to repair than other modern shitboxes.
Microsoft is trying really hard to make Windows on ARM the default now for consumer devices.
could've actually taken the kaczynski pill and actually do something but nope, mutts won't do shit
>>108770814Because the means of mass producing parts wasn't as available back then. Auto mechanic were actually mechanical techs. Auto shops have part swappers now because it's more economical and time efficient.
"AI" is a stopgap measure to a global depression at worst and an oligarch ponzi scheme supported by illicit b2b racketeering at best.These companies will be begging you to build or buy PCs once their CEOs golden parachute out with buyout subsidies ands leave their corporate husks bagholding.
>>108773505that's becoming illegal
>>108770850What's staving this madness off is the same thing thay keeps killing vidya streaming, the user experience is awful. Even the lowliest office troglodytes can't tolerate it.
