Looking at what's happening with RAM pricing and Crucial being shuttered, the doomer in me thinks they could just pull the same thing with every other PC component. It's not like some plucky band of upstarts can start 3D printing organic free-range FOSS processors, hard drives and motherboards in their garage- all of this shit comes out of a couple of giant plants in Asia. If porky strangles the supply, that's it. In the end all the average joe schmoe will be left with are cloud-based terminals that rely entirely on subscription services and that require strong identification to even use (and that will monitor and log every single fucking thing you do while drowning you in ads)
Wanna install Linux? Go ahead! What are you going to install it on though, your grandpa's old Pentium? 
Wanna ditch subscription services and sail the seas? Oops, it looks like hard drives cost 5,000 dollars and are only sold to enterprise customers. I guess you're not storing that media anywhere
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Yeah, probably. Cory Doctorow's been writing about the war on general purpose computing for over a decade now.
I hope we're salvating as porky does shit like this. Gaming is just grilling for so many people and building a PC is an aspiration for so many who have already been burned by crypto.
I think the only way to get to alot of them is using it as the hook for a co-ordinated boycott. As much as possible cut Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, nvidia, Adobe and anything else AI adjacent out of your life. That includes deepseek who are also likely eating alot of hardware. If a brand or studio use AI then cut them out. This should have been easy with BDS but we need to work with what we conditions have not what we want. Some of it is inescapable, especially Microsoft but the tech industry is so overleveraged that any decline in the attention economy is going to be a disaster. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for economic warfare.
Are we communists seeking to replace this failed system or are we social democrats wincing at it's next crisis?
Imagine building the empire on the support of treatlerites and then trying to take away their treats
I am convince that porkies really want a world where most people don’t work or consume. Just wait to die from some mysterious illness when just enough of the economy is automated.
I think they're so obsessed with winner-takes-all dynamic and short term gain that they only care about whatever enriches and empowers them personally that they'll cannibalize the rest of the economy and even their class to their own detriment.