Lee DunaLaptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costs
BestBouclettesI’m pretty convinced they want to create a situation where people have to use “thin client” like computers always plugged in their infra. An OS as a service, under subscription, always monitored and scrapped for AI training and mass surveillance.
The Windows 12 announcements point towards that
The Windows 12 announcements point towards that
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.