So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.
Maybe that’s the whole idea. I mean, think about it, you know how killing Section 230 would kill online freedom, right? Someone probably thought, ‘Why kill Section 230 when we can go a step further and consolidate general-purpose computing to the cloud, and then have a centralized kill switch we can flip by intentionally blacking out web access for the entire country, leaving everyone ultimately helpless and under our grip?’
Phones? Tablets? There’s your local PC right there. I don’t condone it, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Bezos is threatening to make happen; instead of having a local PC you own, you’ll access everything from your phone in a way that it can be revoked on a whim.
Good thing you can uninstall Windows for now, then.
Also, I have a feeling that Bezos’ threats to kill the PC (yes, I’m calling them threats because they sound like threats), and the KYC stuff going around are somehow linked.
Bezos’ threats against the very existence of the PC could also be construed as a threat against self-hosting, including the Fediverse, and against the existence of alt OSes as well.
Good luck killing off older games, though.
There are other VPS providers you can use, though, most of the Fediverse uses Hetzner, for instance.
I’m not giving up my PC, I’m running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.
775 is a 21-year-old platform and AM2+ is 18 years old.
Mint is pretty much the de facto recommendation for absolute beginners freshly moving away from Windows right now, but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software.
Otoh, any of the Puppy distros are a great option for genuinely old hardware; think AM2+/775 or older, that a lot of heavier distros may or may not struggle on.
No, Jensen, you got that backwards, GenAI itself is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, the active and well-deserved pushback against it ain’t hurting anyone.
Your grift is what’s killing the world, asshole.
Hell no, and Nvidia can fuck right off with this shit, right alongside MS, and anyone else who pulls this crap.
GenAI is a scam and I will continue to refer to it as such as long as free speech still exists in my country.
This is probably going to encourage Sony to go the Apple route and start making their own silicon so they have full control.
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Just like I said in another post related to this, I hope this doesn’t kill LibreWolf, IceCat, and Waterfox.
Next step, modular desktops as a concept will die, probably.
I hope people like locked-down black boxes they can’t upgrade and can’t run their own OS on in the future, so byebye Linux and BSD in that scenario outside of niche devices.
Even then, NVMe riser cards are a thing to just stick an NVMe drive in a spare PCIe slot.
I also included ARM desktop boxes like what Google is trying to push Android on in a partnership with Qualcomm lately in that too, basically, any ARM device regardless of whether it’s a phone or tablet, or a cheap desktop box, will work for your ‘local PC’ (aka. a thin client) in a cloud rental scheme.