It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.

https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

Hold on to Your Hardware

A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.

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@lmorchard OFC they wajt that because that'll #disempower the average person, and create a wide base if #TechIlliterate #consumers!