Lee DunaCPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company
themurphyThis is goind exactly as planned by big tech.
They dont want you to own your own hardware. They dont want local storage. They want to control EVERYTHING.
When personal computing is expensive enough, they will offer remote access to their server space, where you rent some specs and the screen (your computer access) is projected to you via internet.
Then they’ll earn the subscription money, and they own every single log file and data on “your” computer.
As soon as this is the cheapest option by a margin, they WILL get costumers. No doubt. And it’s awful.
My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.
Her phone storage was full, so:
- Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
- Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
- It then demanded payment to get access to her files.
Google Photos is ransomware by definition.
I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.
Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.
I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.
Corkyskog