I feel like there is a line coming with hardware and software and that will be the last of it’s type as the move towards subscription based services is forced onto everyone. Its a shame people won’t vote with their wallets. It just means I’ll have my basement crammed with old tech and I’ll go full old man mode and stop keeping up with technological progress.
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minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are taking the power of personal computing away from us…
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thats my plan.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Its a shame people won’t vote with their wallets.
I’ve been truly stunned these past several days to find out just how many people, not even crazy facebook people but just average users on Lemmy, pay for a ChatGPT subscription.
They just don’t care.
other_cat@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
I had a mental health professional suggest using ChatGPT to make a day planner, it fucking floored me. We are not in the majority here and it sucks when that sinks in.
flightyhobler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Too bad you will need hard drives for that. And all the rest.
athatet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No no. OLD tech. Books do not require hard drives.
gnate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Books like “A Canticle for Liebowitz”
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Just learn how to harvest the next generation of chips out of their subscription-based devices that don’t have any onboard RAM or GPU, and then integrate it into your existing system.
You might have to write your own firmware and triple-check for any backdoors that might send your data back to the mothership, but it’s not like you have to cut yourself off entirely as long as you maintain your own self-sufficient system.
chromodynamic@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If anyone has recommendations for ways to preserve personal computing, please share at !homecomputing@piefed.social
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
I have recommendations but I would get arrested for saying what they might be
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This will make it more anonymous because verification relies on a token defined in the OS rather than uploading identification.
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They can pry it out of my cold dead hands
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.