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

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia 6h ago

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Aral Balkan

(It’s because of this shit that when we launch the Small Web this year, I’m not going to be able to price the servers as low as I would have wanted to (and could have done, say, last year). It’s not because of inflation but because of this shit raising the price of virtual private servers. Because fuck the small guy trying to make something that’s owned and controlled by people instead of owning and controlling people.)

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RichBartlett

8h ago

@aral is there any chance that when the AI bubble bursts there'll be data centres worth of hardware being sold cheap by liquidators? Doesn't help now but I heard someone say a good business plan for 2027 was "find a use for loads of cheap GPU servers"