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@mhoye Pardon for appropriating French culture, but...

guillotines when?

@just_chill surement du old-school DCF-77. Ouaih, ca capte pas toujours tres bien en interieur selon ou on habite en Europe.
Moi (=en Suisse) j'ai deux reveil-matin comme ca. L'un continue de marcher tres bien meme apres ~30ans. L'autre ne capte que si je le laisse sur le balcon.

Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

@danct12 And rhis is still.on your PineBook Pro, I guess?

I finally retired mine (including its "Spicy pillow" inflated battery) this week and am switching to a Raspberry Pi based successor (Argon40 One Up), mostly due to the memory limitations of the venerable RK3399.

@just_chill Radio commandee: bon vieux DCF-77 de Frankfurt? Ou un truc plus fancy et moderne? (p.ex.: GPS? Serveur NTP via le Wifi?)

"Setting aside the moral arguments—"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water—"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

@AlienAnomaly "Just one more lake, bro! Just let me boil one more lake! Just one more lake and this time I swear we'll get AGI!"
@grimalkina I mean... we're literally after betting the entire IT industry on tech best described as "boiling an ocean to avoid reading a book".
@dominiksteiger Speakin of which: bad news, something failed in the sequencer, it only produced a ridiculously low amount of reads, so new drop of data this week.

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