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  • ☂️-@lemmy.mltoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon owns nothing and is unhappy
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    22 hours ago

    i like the optimism and really hope you are right, but there has been a very deliberate trend to strip us of ownership, and the powers that be seem very serious about it (think uber instead of car ownership, netflix and game streaming instead of media ownership, renting instead of home ownership) as capitalism concentrates wealth.

    and with the ubiquitous internet infrastructure we have now, centralizing computing is easier than ever when all they really care about is that we are able to do our button pressing work.

    i really do hope they come up with a way to fix silicon. because stuff like motherboards can already be easily repaired with mostly off the shelf components, but silicon gets… complicated to say the least, and it’s at the center of our current bottleneck. or that used server hardware isn’t somehow efused, encrypted or otherwise made nonviable or too hard for consumers to reuse.

    there is some hope for some other potentially capable player like china and their shiny new semiconductor industry or russia can step in and offer alternatives to enshitified us tech as they wedge themselves into the global market, but that gets difficult with import controls that would certainly be put in place to stop them from taking hold.

    but yeah, the next decade or two will see some muddying of these waters as the war season picks up, cooperation shuts down and resources get scarce as they are redirected to murder.

    i will go as far as to say the big changes you allude to are already in the pipeline and IDing everyone on the internet and pushing cloud is just the beginning.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mltoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon owns nothing and is unhappy
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    1 day ago

    my main worry is that these things aren’t built to last. especially phones.

    yeah if they switched everyone to the cloud right now, i’d have a decade of computer at this point, maybe a bit more if i can fix it, and then what?

    consoles tend to last longer but they don’t do general computing, which is an important thing we’d be losing in the process.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operativeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    i’m actually still learning about north korea as i took interest in it very recently, but i can say a couple of things:

    yes, not unlike cuba, they suffer from the blockade and lack of sufficient land. because of that, they used to very heavily rely on the ussr for food and trade, and when it died, their food distribution collapsed for a few years.

    though something that’s not talked about enough is how they built their country atop of ashes and a lot preexisting hunger after the korean war and major bombings by the us. this one is a hurdle most socialist countries have to deal with.

    that’s not to say communists generally think north korea it’s perfect or else.

    i can’t tell you in good faith about their modern internal policy, or the veracity of modern hunger claims because i simply don’t know enough about it yet.