So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
I also included ARM desktop boxes like what Google is trying to push Android on in a partnership with Qualcomm lately in that too, basically, any ARM device regardless of whether it’s a phone or tablet, or a cheap desktop box, will work for your ‘local PC’ (aka. a thin client) in a cloud rental scheme.
Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.
Maybe that’s the whole idea. I mean, think about it, you know how killing Section 230 would kill online freedom, right? Someone probably thought, ‘Why kill Section 230 when we can go a step further and consolidate general-purpose computing to the cloud, and then have a centralized kill switch we can flip by intentionally blacking out web access for the entire country, leaving everyone ultimately helpless and under our grip?’
Phones? Tablets? There’s your local PC right there. I don’t condone it, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Bezos is threatening to make happen; instead of having a local PC you own, you’ll access everything from your phone in a way that it can be revoked on a whim.
Good thing you can uninstall Windows for now, then.
Also, I have a feeling that Bezos’ threats to kill the PC (yes, I’m calling them threats because they sound like threats), and the KYC stuff going around are somehow linked.
Bezos’ threats against the very existence of the PC could also be construed as a threat against self-hosting, including the Fediverse, and against the existence of alt OSes as well.
Good luck killing off older games, though.
There are other VPS providers you can use, though, most of the Fediverse uses Hetzner, for instance.
I’m not giving up my PC, I’m running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.
No, Jensen, you got that backwards, GenAI itself is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, the active and well-deserved pushback against it ain’t hurting anyone.
Your grift is what’s killing the world, asshole.
Hell no, and Nvidia can fuck right off with this shit, right alongside MS, and anyone else who pulls this crap.
GenAI is a scam and I will continue to refer to it as such as long as free speech still exists in my country.
This is probably going to encourage Sony to go the Apple route and start making their own silicon so they have full control.
'Ey, liberals: the US is just as bad as China right now if not worse, and in fact they are worse in one metric: unless that changed for the better, the US has a larger prison population than China, we’re locking up more people than China, when if you pride yourself as a free country, the number of people you have locked up is not a metric you wanna be #1 in, in fact, if a country sells themselves as a free country, they should be doing everything in their power to keep the number of people they lock up to a minimum, as in lock up the people who are truly dangerous to society like sex offenders or serial killers and the like, but don’t have years in prison be your first reaction for non-violent offenders that have a higher likelihood of being able to be rehabilitated.
Like, we legitimately have people serving sentences as long as or in some cases longer than murderers and sex offenders, just for having some weed on them for personal use, not even trying to sell the stuff. These people just wanted to go get stoned in their off time, in their own homes, not hurting anyone, and here they are with their lives completely over. Now of course some of those people did get rightfully let off the hook, but there’s no denying that it still happened.