No, and it’s by design.

You’re gonna lease a tablet and use cloud-based storage services and like it.

The dystopia is here.

The problem with that is Intel is subject to the same bullshit economic assessments as AMD and Nvidia… They’ll just as soon retool for ai as well.

That would be nice. But video cards are a VERY niche piece of engineering. The knowledge of HOW to make them is locked in a handful of people, and the ability to make them locked behind a very niche set of equipment that will ALSO be exploding in cost.

One does not simply start a graphics card company.

Doing it AFTER the midterms is too late.

The election will be stolen and no amount of striking will get a NEW election to happen. Furthermore Trump will continue to have unfettered control of all 3 branches of the government, the military, and a paramilitary police force answerable only to him.

A strike at that point will lead to nothing less than civil war.

My Bachelor’s degree let me emigrate, so no complaints there.

But having knowledge of exactly how screwed the world is right now is pretty cursed.

Have an upvote.

Now dadjokes is over there.

Death IS the new retirement.

Or at least, it should be, given how much I’m looking forward to it.

The people who didn’t vote aren’t some magical absolution of responsibility. They were either okay with this or didn’t care either way, and apathy doesn’t count in the “good” pile. I’m an American and want to find a way to justify defending the US too, but this particular argument doesn’t hold any water. I could JUST as easily claim they all would’ve voted for Trump and they didn’t show up because they figured he had it in the bag.

It’s kind of shocking that they think they can actually target making it BETTER when the model is just a black box they keep shoving crap into.

If it’s any consolation, those places are still going to get MORE difficult to access when open PCs that run an OS you control cost $5,000.

Came here specifically for this. Not disappointed.

”I’m 70, btw!"

I mean… Even the criminals are depressed and unmotivated.

“Old tools” does not mean obsolete or bad. It means tested, hardened, and reliable. And crucially, probably runs in a couple megabytes of memory, which you might need if the cost of RAM suddenly quintuples for no reason.

You’re right, of course.

And with the death of PC, the browser won’t be far behind. And with apps, delivered through restricted app stores, being the only thing left, the absolute fantasy of grassroots Internet counterculture somehow saving us will fall to the cyberpunk dystopia most people seem so eager to bring about.

It’s just a matter of time.

I intentionally ignore the vast majority of everything on my phone until I can get to a real computer. Phones and tablets feel like unmitigated torture and I loathe it every time I have to use one to do something

Newbie mistake… you need to air dry it or else it shrinks.

It’s not about Trix for those kids… It’s about mocking the rabbit about the privilege they have and which is forbidden to the rabbit.

The cruelty is the point.