You see what's happening right?

Taggart

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

James Tinmouth

@mttaggart found 3 spindles of dvd-r's the other day, I'm gonna get archiving

Taggart

@tinmouth Finally my M-Disc writer makes sense

Galactic Stone

@mttaggart Suddenly all that retro "obsolete" hardware isn't so niche and worthless. I have a stack of old laptops to cannibalize - enough to last a Linux lifetime.

James Tinmouth

@mttaggart had to go look that up! It's true none of my cd-rw's from the late 90s read anymore.

tomcat :arch_linux:

@mttaggart

Phase 1: force AI adoption by removing other options to not use it

Phase 2: make computing unaffordable for the masses by buying up all stock of components, driving up demand while building datacenters.

Phase 3: further increase demand for and adoption of your cloud computing/AI datacenter by making people reliant on crappy cloud PCs/PCaaS devices with little horsepower to do much else

Phase 4: use telemetry/spyware in said datacenters to surveil/harvest data from every user of said cloud PCs and use it to serve hyper-targeted ads (everyone knows people love hyper-targeted ads) and send drone fleets to respond to/harass dissenters domestic terrorists

Phase 5: profit

tschenkel

@mttaggart

I regret having delayed upgrading my old 4x2TB NAS array, because I didn't want to spend that much money on HDDs. Seems like everywhere is limited to 2 drives per account where I am.

May need to get a hotswap enclosure and pick out all my old 0.5TB drives for less frequently used stuff.

Binary Large Octopus

@mttaggart I hope this will help break the mental cycle that mandates the necessity of having to buy new stuff regularly instead of using what's already there up to its actual lifetime. That way, this would in the long term hurt companies who's business model relies on creating artificial demand instead of providing actually necessary products and services.

Ra (Freya) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@tschenkel @mttaggart I am suddenly very, very lucky to have 85TB of spinning rust

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@tomcat
Hot take: if digital privacy is as unattainable as the people telling us to give up on it was, none of this would be necessary.
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