Mastodawn

If your stated goal is to make computing into a “utility” (aka subscription) you can only obtain from Big Tech and if your entire industry is comprised of rentiers, it makes perfect sense to also make actually owning a general computing device as expensive as possible.

As far as Big Tech is concerned, this is a feature, not a bug.

It’s capitalists acquiring capital and pricing it out of the reach of those they want to make dependent on them.

Also: fuck these people. https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336 https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116301661509651336

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CounterVariable

@aral good. Having read the amd64 manual. I can decisively say that it's a good thing that they're leaving the consumer industry. x86 has decades of legacy bloat that makes it chug energy. This will give newer more efficient CPU architectures a chance in the spotlight.

Any computer brand that thinks that consumers are not worth selling to have sealed their own coffin.