what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
the pattern would be: make personal computing expensive, complicated, and unnecessary while making cloud dependence cheap, simple, and required. whether coordinated or emergent, the trajectory is similar - computing power migrating from personal ownership to rental access.
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the pattern would be: make personal computing expensive, complicated, and unnecessary while making cloud dependence cheap, simple, and required. whether coordinated or emergent, the trajectory is similar - computing power migrating from personal ownership to rental access.
possible indicators:
hardware consolidation:
* RAM concentrated in data centers, not consumer hands
* repair parts increasingly scarce or locked down (right-to-repair battles)
* custom silicon (M-series, Snapdragon X) that's harder to upgrade or swap
* soldered components becoming standard even in "pro" machines
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possible indicators:
hardware consolidation:
* RAM concentrated in data centers, not consumer hands
* repair parts increasingly scarce or locked down (right-to-repair battles)
* custom silicon (M-series, Snapdragon X) that's harder to upgrade or swap
* soldered components becoming standard even in "pro" machines
software centralization:
* operating systems pushing cloud dependencies (win 11's ms account requirements, ChromeOS model)
* Adobe, Microsoft, AutoCAD all shifted to subscription models requiring internet validation
* local AI models possible but corporations pushing API-dependent solutions
* progressive web apps replacing locally-run software
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software centralization:
* operating systems pushing cloud dependencies (win 11's ms account requirements, ChromeOS model)
* Adobe, Microsoft, AutoCAD all shifted to subscription models requiring internet validation
* local AI models possible but corporations pushing API-dependent solutions
* progressive web apps replacing locally-run software
knowledge degradation:
* fewer people learning to build PCs or understand their machines
* tech education shifting from "how computers work" to "how to use apps"
* repair culture dying as devices become unrepairable black boxes
* documentation and schematics increasingly proprietary
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knowledge degradation:
* fewer people learning to build PCs or understand their machines
* tech education shifting from "how computers work" to "how to use apps"
* repair culture dying as devices become unrepairable black boxes
* documentation and schematics increasingly proprietary
economic pressure:
* hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM situation)
* home servers becoming impractical vs cloud services
* development tools increasingly cloud-based (GitHub codespaces, cloud IDEs)
honestly, all fairly weak and circumnavigable indicators, but also possibly a death by a thousand cuts.
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economic pressure:
* hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM situation)
* home servers becoming impractical vs cloud services
* development tools increasingly cloud-based (GitHub codespaces, cloud IDEs)
honestly, all fairly weak and circumnavigable indicators, but also possibly a death by a thousand cuts.
on the other hand, videogames. a lot more going on for PC. valve's healing influence. is cloud gaming a serious force by now? doubtful.
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economic pressure:
* hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM situation)
* home servers becoming impractical vs cloud services
* development tools increasingly cloud-based (GitHub codespaces, cloud IDEs)
honestly, all fairly weak and circumnavigable indicators, but also possibly a death by a thousand cuts.
@lritter Solution: Go Vintage!
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
@lritter Well, crap. This is something that I had not considered before. 😖
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on the other hand, videogames. a lot more going on for PC. valve's healing influence. is cloud gaming a serious force by now? doubtful.
possible deliberate future attack vectors:
SSD controller chips - a "sudden shortage" would be catastrophic. if NAND controllers became scarce or prohibitively expensive, it would force cloud storage dependence overnight. people couldn't even backup locally anymore.
PSUs - capacitor or transformer supply "disruption" would halt all PC building.
BIOS/UEFI firmware - a "security crisis" requiring signed firmware. approved vendors only or nothing boots
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possible deliberate future attack vectors:
SSD controller chips - a "sudden shortage" would be catastrophic. if NAND controllers became scarce or prohibitively expensive, it would force cloud storage dependence overnight. people couldn't even backup locally anymore.
PSUs - capacitor or transformer supply "disruption" would halt all PC building.
BIOS/UEFI firmware - a "security crisis" requiring signed firmware. approved vendors only or nothing boots
CPU microcode "security patches" - a discovered "fundamental flaw" requiring always-online validation to boot. turns every processor into a subscription service. precedent already exists with Intel Management Engine and AMD PSP.
ethernet/network chips - if networking hardware became scarce or required licensing/authentication.
discrete GPU extinction - already happening organically, but accelerated scarcity would eliminate any serious computing, gaming, or AI work on personal machines.
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CPU microcode "security patches" - a discovered "fundamental flaw" requiring always-online validation to boot. turns every processor into a subscription service. precedent already exists with Intel Management Engine and AMD PSP.
ethernet/network chips - if networking hardware became scarce or required licensing/authentication.
discrete GPU extinction - already happening organically, but accelerated scarcity would eliminate any serious computing, gaming, or AI work on personal machines.
the most elegant attack would combine legitimate security concerns with artificial scarcity.
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
@lritter its the colonization of the computer indigenous world, local computer users and self-reparing and developing savages are basicly the indigenous population. and it is in full progress.
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the most elegant attack would combine legitimate security concerns with artificial scarcity.
i sure would hate it if open source were the eli sunday whose milkshake will be drunk
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
@lritter i think this is ascribing malice to something which is almost entirely mechanically profit driven
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@lritter i think this is ascribing malice to something which is almost entirely mechanically profit driven
@lritter reality is boring, follow the money
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@lritter its the colonization of the computer indigenous world, local computer users and self-reparing and developing savages are basicly the indigenous population. and it is in full progress.
@tomtrottel you see a self-sufficient people, i see future addicts i mean customers! customers!
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@lritter reality is boring, follow the money
@profan if it is deliberate it is more predictable; which makes it easier to defend against. if it's chaos, no need to do anything. tbh if i were attacking, i would make it seem like chaos.
and money is a huge motivator for war
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what if ram buyout is part of a greater attack on personal computing
any other indicators?
It occurred to me, too.
And the times where one could dismiss such thoughts as implausible are, sadly, over.
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economic pressure:
* hobbyist computing priced out (current RAM situation)
* home servers becoming impractical vs cloud services
* development tools increasingly cloud-based (GitHub codespaces, cloud IDEs)
honestly, all fairly weak and circumnavigable indicators, but also possibly a death by a thousand cuts.
Unfortunately, this entire scenario makes eminent (twisted) sense in the current times.
Even if it is partly true "by accident" / emergent from the general atmosphere of greed and lust for control ...
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Basta con la repressione!
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@jane i argue against specific features, that are often included in "parental control"
so far the only thing people convinced me could be okay, is screen timeout timers
what i get worried is, for a teenager, making it easy to allowlist websites and content types, and making it easy to track everything they do with their devices
sure, there is other ways of doings those things, but the easier those tools are to enable and use, the more i saw them get abused
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Contraccambio!
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Felice equinozio di primavera a tutti voi.
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@navi so your arguing against a specific implementation? memories while growing up are heavily skewed, that was a really though thing to learn for me while taking care of a kid for a year. there were even moments were it made sense to lie or heavily skew the truth, a thing i couldn't have imagined before.
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Is it virtue signalling though?
Can't it be plain frustration about the state and trend of the world in this matter?Yes, it might be barking up the wrong tree.
But I think what many people are looking for is acknowledgement of that frustration, a feeling of being heard at least within *their* community. At least within libre FOSS.How to respond to that is a choice.
