Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  now that you say this, it is also so wasteful for all of us to leave our homes empty while we go to work! we need to destroy homeownership, and we need to require all landlords to host multiple families in their properties! It’s not only the empty space, the empty beds and toilet, but also the fridges that keep consuming power, even though nobody is actively using them!

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  • MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well yeah it is, but is most likely much harder to solve co-living like that in a way that’s acceptable for almost any people. Whereas what was suggested here is that people pool their resources and lend/rent to each other. 

    Nothing about forcing anything on anyone, and people who want to be able to have exactly the CPU they need at any given time would probably not be interested.

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• jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And it isn’t wasteful to be forced to replace perfectly good hardware and filling landfills with it because fucking companies want to own your data, your money and your life? People like you are the reason these assholes feel empowered to push this crap.

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  • obz3n@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Relax my fellow human.

    Neither did I imply that people should be forced to throw away their hardware, nor did I say that no one should own anything or completely surrender to any corporate overlords (actually I said the opposite).

    All I meant is that sharing resources sometimes makes sense. When I see people buy very expensive and powerful machines for browsing the internet and regular office work all I can think is “what a waste”, blind consumerism. I think we can do better. What “better” is, I’m not certain either.

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• MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jeez you really hit a nerve here, with your pretty sane concept about sharing resources communally. 

  I guess some people really don’t like the word wasteful or something.

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  • obz3n@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s quite interesting to see the reactions. I’m happy to call it “inefficient” instead? I’m not a native English speaker so maybe the choice of word indicated to some that I wanted to blame people, that was not my intention.

    Maybe it’s the fact that many users here are very tech savvy and would never want to give away sovereignty of their devices, which I can fully relate to. But I believe this perspective totally skews what an average user needs in computational power for everyday tasks.

    This “communal computing” solution is just an idea. Maybe it’s stupid and has many downsides I haven’t considered, but I think it’s quite apparent, that we’ll not be able to continue this way forever, especially if more and more people on this planet rightfully want access to all these amenities.

    We feel very entitled to our technology, and I fully think it plays an important part in open society, having access to information etc.

    But it’s simple ridiculous to believe that it’s some kind of basic human right for everyone to own one or many high end devices for stuff that could easily be done with a 5-10 year old device.

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• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you think about it, it is very wasteful for you to have that chocolate bar in your food pantry. So many wasted calories as most bodies can only burn a fraction of them before converting the rest into fat. Same can be said for pasta and many other foods. We even spend a full third of our lives asleep, consuming even less calories! Incredibly inefficient!

  Maybe the solution is aerosolized calories that can be sprayed via plane over vast regions of the country instead of food so that calories are owned by the people on a local, regional, or national level?

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• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Network down, can’t use Computer. Government Shit, can’t use computer. Cloud Computing companies shit? Can’t use computer. I want to be able to use it whenever wherever without trusting the whole Chain to hold.

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