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Before my job in robotics which I can vaguely mention but that's it.. I was a hardware guy.. still am.. I've played with programming but at best I'm a hack at that. Dangerous enough to mess with WordPress and shell scripts.. that's it.

In 2026.. it feels like the tech industry wants to take away my hardware. Price it out of the existence of ownership.. or use it as a weapon against me. It's hard to not getting mad about this.. they want to take the word "No" from you like some kind of rapist.
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People in the tech industry think "No." Is negative speak.. not understand that "No." Is the most polite some of can be.. as there "Fuck No." And "Go fucking die in a fire No"
Show threadarcanicanisMar 11

I wonder if there'll be a point where home-fabbing could ever be remotely practical, like to the hobbyist level of 3D printing. Having terabytes of storage, gigabytes of RAM, gigahertz of compute is luxury (and some of that only being requisite to high-resolution video/rendering; many other things can be done with far less).

Meanwhile if it were possible to homebrew something to early/mid-90s era specs at least, then that would be space enough for folks to be technologically independent, at some level.

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@arcanicanis this could be the start of the “high tech low life” statement that a lot of cyberpunk novels warned us about. Where it isn’t about making new tech but freeing throw away tech for another life . Reversing TPM chips from hardware lock . Defusing cpu pairing to the main board so it can be used elsewhere. And software that works generations better then corporate tech because it no longer requires 80 percent of memory and cpu power to monitor and sell you things . Then they’ll point and accuse you of theft of their junk . Police run by corpos etc etc .