It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years?
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard i'm not convinced they can. not for lack of trying, but because they, uh, have built it all on a foundation of having practical access to hardware. the sudden unavailability of personal computing hardware doesn't leave us having to use non-personal computing, it leaves us all up shit creek without a paddle as nearly everything electronic is no longer obtainable
the shitstorm is going to get mighty fun as point-of-sale terminals start being hard to get -
It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard @davew It’s not alarmist, it’s something they’ve mentioned in leaked emails, etc… and it’s what is actually happening directly due to their actions regardless of what they say.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard Already accomplished. Cloud computing and web based applications are the mainframe all over again. The priesthood never died, just worked and waited to reemerge.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard you know, the last machine I had that I really liked was a beautiful DEC tank of a Pentium. Just imagine how much better computers could be if software and OSs for the workaday stiff had to run on constrained resources that can now be cheaply produced.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Oh, they’re absolutely are. Just look at all the laws that are being passed now and some states. I think it’s Colorado. I just read who wants to put identification personal identification into the OS.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard they are trying unfortunately
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@robdaemon @trevorflowers @lmorchard The worrisome part of this is that the AI bubble burst could accelerate this: superscalars sitting on new data centers and hardware with no use for it. Sell it or... convince the public that this is now their new computer [as though that were the plan all along] and they should buy this new cloud terminal device and pay them so they can recoup some of their huge mistakes.
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@maddiefuzz @lmorchard FWIW they're already working on trying to make 3D printers illegal (because you could maybe print parts of guns with them).
@thomasfuchs @lmorchard I’m not sure they’re gonna win that one, for the pessimistic reason that it’s quickly becoming An Industry that will surely lobby.
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@maddiefuzz @lmorchard FWIW they're already working on trying to make 3D printers illegal (because you could maybe print parts of guns with them).
Better make bread illegal too, because someone could die choking on it.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard can you not pick up right wing conspiracy slogans and just run with them *SMH*
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard The average person WANTS all forms of computing to be an abstract subscription that they never have to think about.
The future of computing hangs on socioeconomic ideology, not technology.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard They've been complaining about it since the 80's. Which explains a few things about how it was taught in the 90's.
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@robdaemon @trevorflowers @lmorchard The worrisome part of this is that the AI bubble burst could accelerate this: superscalars sitting on new data centers and hardware with no use for it. Sell it or... convince the public that this is now their new computer [as though that were the plan all along] and they should buy this new cloud terminal device and pay them so they can recoup some of their huge mistakes.
@tankgrrl @robdaemon @trevorflowers @lmorchard what?? Push risk onto the public?? That’s unpossible!
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I know just little enough about the production of ICs to think that building a DIY microprocessor would be akin to when that kid David Hahn tried building a nuclear reactor in his garage in the 90s. But then again, maybe that's what *they* want me to think
@lmorchard I wrote a book about that sort of thing some years ago. It's rather outdated at this point but it might give you some ideas.
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@thomasfuchs @lmorchard I’m not sure they’re gonna win that one, for the pessimistic reason that it’s quickly becoming An Industry that will surely lobby.
@maddiefuzz @thomasfuchs @lmorchard To keep printers out of non-company hands.
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I know just little enough about the production of ICs to think that building a DIY microprocessor would be akin to when that kid David Hahn tried building a nuclear reactor in his garage in the 90s. But then again, maybe that's what *they* want me to think
@lmorchard only one way to find out!!!
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I know just little enough about the production of ICs to think that building a DIY microprocessor would be akin to when that kid David Hahn tried building a nuclear reactor in his garage in the 90s. But then again, maybe that's what *they* want me to think
@lmorchard there is a, probably now adult, person out there doing exactly this, with the same attitude as the nuclear reactor kid.
last time I checked in, he was working in the 300 nanometer scale. zaloof, or something like that. He's on YouTube.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard My gut reaction from living through a decade of stupid component shortages is "yes, this is alarmist, BUT I'm still holding onto my gaming PC just in case".
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@lmorchard They practiced with locked phones and every new form since. A lot of their moves on PCs look like maneuvering for the same thing.
@trevorflowers @lmorchard I agreed to set up a friend's W11 laptop to dual-boot Linux Mint. I have probably done this fifty times or more (with various versions of Windows != 11 though). Usually a 15-minute process excluding the download intervals.
Dear reader, the pain that ensued thanks to secure boot, TPM, and Bitlocker was extraordinary. Hours of messing with one-off ISO builds and the limited access to BIOS parameters just about broke me.
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It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
Hold on to Your Hardware
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.
マリウス (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
@lmorchard everyone rolled their eyes at me for only shopping for old laptops, but here we are.
As nice and easy as it would be to just buy the latest M5 macbook, they're basically kill-switched now. I dont play games, so as long as this a pre-secureboot intel machine can still push Linux and some form of browser, I'll rock it til it dies or I do.
and of course they can bury my Amiga with me.
Besides, youve already built yourself a kit z80, between that and all your retro stuff you probably wont need to go full Ben Eater in the garage. Though he does make it look "easy".
