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Hold on to Your Hardware - マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 23 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where
owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control
drift toward data centers and away from people.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Software bloat will hurt more and will require re-thinking. Efficiency will matter again.

This is the next battlefront. I already see it happening. Software requiring significantly more resources with each iteration to do the same job.

They're going to try and push us off older devices, and hope we use their devices instead.