• TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Sadly I fear worse, the bulk of people will adapt in the stupidest way…

    What’s coming… is obvious. When the AI bubble bursts, there will be an absurd amount more data centers than use for them… and all the hardware is in forms that aren’t going to be convertable into consumer devices.

    What’s going to happen is what microsoft, amazon, and google have been dreaming of for a decade… Remember google Stadia, Luna etc…

    People won’t be buying PCs… they will be buying, thin clients. Your PC will just stream your hardware from a data center. The music and movie industries will be happy because the providers can scan for pirated content… governments may flat out ban individuals from owning personal computers, that’s a security risk they can’t control, they are already looking into bills to prevent personal AI systems. No worries of people bypassing age verification, or running custom OS’s or firmware that can’t be controlled.

    Best of all it’s super profitable, instead of a few grand for a one time purchase, they can hit you up every month… and gradually raise the prices like cable, like movie streaming. Maybe even vendor lockouts… you gotta stream an MS computer to get access to office 365, but you’ll also need an amazon subscription to run some other applications, or games or whatever they locked in exclusivity for.

    • sealhaslupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      this is all based on the premise that an individual can afford the plethora of products and services on offer.

      i think more or less that’s it’s difficult to foresee what will happen in the next 5 years.

      what i believe people have a hard time understanding is that there is no such thing as “too large to fail”. it only takes a handful of poor decisions for a company to fail, and many more better decisions for it to succeed.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        12 days ago

        what i believe people have a hard time understanding is that there is no such thing as “too large to fail”.

        Well, I don’t think people generally think that literally anymore. Nowadays what it ends up meaning is that if the company is such a monolith central to modern life, it can make the stupidest decisions imaginable and simply be “propped up” by sucking money out of our pockets.

        Less “They’re too big to fail” and more “They won’t let it fail, even if it should.”

        • sealhaslupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          12 days ago

          this is also very true.

          i do believe that the pendulum swings back and forth but at the moment it’s swinging in the direction of people who are inherently selfish (amongst many other things)

          • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            11 days ago

            I disagree. I think it’s been that way the past 10+ years, but now that we’re seeing the repercussions of that it might finally swing back the other way

  • jpreston1986@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I bought a computer in 2007 that was 8GB of RAM and a TB Hard-drive, but a recent windows update bricked the machine because it didn’t have enough space. Is that what’s going to happen to these machines? Just, right off-the-line and into the garbage?

    • stembolts@programming.dev
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      11 days ago

      Not sure, on Linux I don’t really think about these things. Never had a computer become “bricked”.

      Tbh it’s great for the Linux community because we can pick them up secondhand cheap and continue using them.

      Brick more laptops Windows. 🐸

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Same. My 2019 thinkpad is holding up surprisingly well, especially since I’m not running the bloated vibe slop mess that is Win 11.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    12 days ago

    Silver lining? Just maybe software vendors might be a little more careful with memory usage.

    I won’t hold my breath though.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    We allowed tech companies to have more money than entire countries by repealing the laws that forced them to reinvest their profits. They in turn bought out supplier’s entire stock of RAM to stifle their competition and eventually remove tech ownership from the lower classes. This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with greed.