Technology

What a fucking joke that would be on US American networks.

We are ranked like 30th in the world for bandwidth. No fiber dropped to the curb but the billionaires. And shit slow 20th century wireless speeds with technical acumen that we see today in Verizon's ongoing 8 hour outage.

Bezos is so out of touch it is clown-like and stupid.

They want a data center heavy world but have no fucking pipeline to get data in and out for the rest of us.

What a human dildo.

We went from mass surveillance to hardware confiscation real quick.

These companies are so large that they don’t need the consumer market anymore. The consumer is now the competition. They can essentially purchase the entire planet’s output of computing hardware years in advance to force us out of the market and lease it back to us at inflated rates. Then, they turn all that tensor compute against us to make everyone’s life a living digital surveillance hell.

Forget Internet freedom, computational liberty is now at risk. Who needs all that expensive legal and technological architecture to steal your data, report on you to the government, and enforce DRM when they control bare metal access to your rented corporate cloud hardware because consumer PC equipment is too astronomically expensive to afford for the average person?

We need to elevate the prosecution of anti-trust to the level of religious inquisition, and burn these companies at the stake. They’re using AI to literally enslave humanity, and it’s working.

Ok so the tactic is to drain the corporations of their money.

• piracy
• dis-enshittification
• jailbreaking devices
• opensource hardware
• decentralization

Unsurprising that capitalists want to seize all the means of computation for themselves.

Hey Jeff — you know what I think is antiquated and should be relegated to the annals of history?

Billionaires.

Go away and live your life of luxury and shut the fuck up. Don't you have enough fucking money?

yeah you know what i always thought hey this PC cost me a lot, i wish I could keep paying for it indefinitely.

I'll own nothing and you'll be happy?

i will never in my life get any subscription to anything, that doesnt have to be a subscription.

so far i'm fine with:

internet connection and my phone number

A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated

People should be more aware that appeal to making you feel old or antiquated is one of the main strategies from corporations to push their products into you.

No, you're not antiquated. Just be yourself and do things the way you like to do, not the way corporations want to force you into. No one should judge you, and if they do, they're wrong for judging others for their way to do things. Don't fall for that trap

I'll give up computers entirely before I rent one from you greedy pricks.

When AWS had the major outage recently, my self-hosted services kept on running. The programs on my Linux machines and other devices I own were also not impacted. Thanks, Jeff, but I’ll stick with my “antiques”. Also, fuck you.

"Hopes", more like will be doing a bunch of anti-competitive bullshit to ensure that this is your only option.

I mean, that's absolutely where this is going at a business level. Cloud computing has been in the cards for decades, and the only real question is who will do the hosting.

With the price of RAM and CPUs going asymptotic, these big cloud compute companies are building an effective monopoly on high end processing capacity. They're cornering the market on hardware. Eventually, you either use their computers or you stick with legacy hardware (that's seeded with Planned Obsolescence time bombs) or you (shudders just to think of it) start buying computers from CHINA.

When you think about it, there's really only one option.

Every 5 years someone invests a bunch of money into thin clients, and then we’re right back where we started.

I’ll believe it’s possible when America’s networking infrastructure isn’t covered in holes.

Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore's law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense. This is pure corporate greed and nothing else.

You will own nothing and be happy.

Step 1: Raise sales prices artificially

Step 2: Create affordable alternatives to rent.

Step 3: Wait until enough people claim that its cheaper and more comfortable to just rent.

Step 4: Wait until maket is destroyed.

Step 6: Raise prices.

"You will own nothing and you will be happy"

• Blackstone

Fuck you Jeff.

Yeah bud, maybe if you get just a little more money, you'll finally be complete. Just a little more money....

Over my dead body.

Everything a subscription. You'll own nothing and like it!

And, people, I can't stress this enough, FUCK JEFF BEZOS!

That's Nvidia's whole game plan. Subscription to use their hardware. Limits on hours of gaming. Pay to play more hours.

Nothing is ever enough for these greedy fucks

Imagine the unparalleled censorship when the far-right tech elites decide what you can do on "your" computer.

Fuck that shit. Switch to Linux.

The only thing people should be giving up is their Amazon Prime subscriptions and AWS hosting. You're very likely getting ripped off and overcharged if you use AWS. Also although I recommend ordering from other websites if you have no choice but to use Amazon you don't need Prime for free shipping, just wait until you have enough stuff in your cart such that you're over the free shipping threshold. Don't order unnecessary stuff to get over the threshold.

Good luck with that.

Signed,

A person who has recently started pulling all their files from cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox

Techno-feudalism, ladies and gentlemen.

So wait is the idea that computers would just be like a monitor that connects directly to Amazon

If you want to be financially free, have no debt. Pay off any loans, dont have subscriptions. Make your monthly costs to be as low as possible.

That is freedom but its the opposite of what is advertised.

This has been tried, and it sucked and failed every time.

How about fuck you Jeff.

I'm not giving up my PC, I'm running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.

The means of information are the new means of production

Literally never.

These greedy fucks are coming after everything you have, that's how this works.

fucking microsoft too. they're enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead