Fuck AI

I just bought an Electric Moped. To make it affordable upfront for some people, they have BaaS (Battery as a Service) model which allows you to pay for your battery as you use it. If you buy the fully “owned” variant, it costs 150k INR while BaaS variant costs 90k INR.

They are just trying to erode ownership from every sector as possible. Capitalism is destroying everything.

Edit: A decent ICE moped costs 90-100k INR

It's 100% the end goal. The shortage driving ram prices is to build data centers; it's not just to hold LLM compute power but to centralize (meaningful) compute power.

Humans are powerful with open information, the ability to communicate, organize...better rip all that down and give consumers what they want; easily clickable funnels into your compute power, your data harvesting, your political and information control...it's the techno fascist fantasy.

I'm shocked by the number of adults 20-40 who don't own their own computer at home. Even when computers are dirty cheap in the US compared to their information, record keeping and economic vitality to modern living at ~$400-$1,000, tons of adults simply walked away from computing or never started it as smartphones were already here and were easy to slide into instead of having to learn.

Lemmy worries about windows users but I worry about people who don't have ANY understanding of how special this moment in history has been when plebs had access to the same technology that oligarchs did (broadly). It's historically an anomaly that the wealthy and powerful would like to correct. Literally the means of production.