• mlg@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.

    It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you’re spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.

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      3 months ago

      I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.

      A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.

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      3 months ago

      These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a “game streaming” service, for example.

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      3 months ago

      It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly…

      I’d imagine that is a major factor in why it’s so accepted right now. Gotta consolidate the market!