MalReynolds

Completely correct.

Cryptomator has an adroid app, haven’t used it in anger, but it’s there.

If you encrypt at home it doesn’t matter where you do offsite. See Cryptomator for an easy platform agnostic approach. Why trust the bastards?

but do you see any realistic way to tackle this apart from raising base service fees?

Hard agree on re-nationalizing a natural monopoly (bloody neoliberal bullshit), which is itself a realistic way. Beyond that investigate microgrids, redundancy (especially EV batteries), making large users pay for their own infrastructure and preferably renewable generation (Aluminium smelters, AI Datacentres, or say no to AI). Battery uptake should be taking pressure off the grid and making it cheaper, but here we are.

Of course, the power companies have been jacking up service fees for the last decade to keep their bottom line. That would not be too bad if they were actually increasing grid capacity or even properly maintaining the current infrastructure, but noo. Those free power plans come with a further jacked up service fee that makes it uneconomic unless you’re charging an EV at those times. Same shit, different day.

Seems a lot of words to say the third place has been monetized out of existence, or at least out of the reach of the poor, which given the death of the middle class means everyone not rich.

I mean it seems adequately researched, makes a valid point on genderization, but is otherwise all over the place.

It already is, this beats the NSA and OpenAI et. al.

Fuck Micron, we will remember. It’s in their interest to pump up the bubble (with 16 SCAs announced by them with no disclosure as to who, which they would if it were anyone important, can we stop reporting press releases as fact, please). When it pops, or China eats their lunch, it will likely be worthwhile to just go insolvent and reincorporate rather than keep to this SCA for anything at scale. More grist for the IPO / stock pump hype mill.

Which side ? or both ?

call out something like space whales and you’ll be good.

Already done, The Beast Below

Epic C-suite: I know, let’s make it even more resource intensive, when no-one can afford high end cards, there’s no supply of them anyway and nothing much new apparently in the pipeline for consumers. That’ll work.

Just get a domain and point it at a provider. Now you’re not locked in and can switch at will upon enshittification. Get one of the offline mail archive services like OpenArchiver. Job done.

Ah, false dichotomy. Now I understand.