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Do we need more advanced computer chips, radios, etc.? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago by iloveDigit@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.zip
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Not really.

But the military does, because further improvement allows stealthier micro-camera-transmitters and things like that.

So they don't let you buy a phone that lasts 10 years with a giant battery and a 6-square-inch SoC at a good price.

They make you buy overpriced short lived phones with tiny chips and batteries, to make you want the next newest most power-efficient chip, with 5G or 6G wireless. Thanks to your support, they can deploy a global network of this tech, and use it for things like MilliMobiles and NSO Group device access.

They don't let the prices go down at full speed on hard drives, RAM, graphics cards, etc. They can just print money to get as much as they need, while worker ants have to provide heavy support to the industry if we want table scraps. We even have to argue about what we do and don't "own" after buying it.

All for their surveillance state, to control you in service of eroding your constitutional rights (not to mention bombing kids and protecting sexual predator islands)

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[โ€“] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who are "they"? Military? Real field-ready military lags 20-30 years behind the civilian sector. No, they don't have gigahertzs, terabytes, etc. They stuck in the '90s(no more lamp triodes, hurray! Cutie-little 4KiB RAM microcontrollers!). Except maybe for the drones in the armies that have them. Not every army does.

[โ€“] iloveDigit@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago

So, you and the people upvoting you were unable to read my post, and also think the US military industrial complex doesn't have drones?