Today’s tech is powerful — but it’s not personal
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Big Tech or Big Brother? We've fallen out of love with Big Tech because our devices feel less like helpful tools and more like strangers in our homes.

The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    23 hours ago

    Sure, I might own the hardware

    Not for long. The goal seems to be to make RAM, flash memory, and GPU’s so expensive that most consumers will need to purchase low-powered client devices and subscribe to cloud computing business models. It’s a handful of companies who are cornering the markets, controlling the supply, and seeking rents.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      41·
      21 hours ago

      I don’t really see that happen. It would mean developers (or crappy AI code generators) would have to write efficient code for the low-powered client devices. The web is basically already other people’s computers and look how memory hungry browsers are, or maybe more specifically the websites/apps that run in the browsers.

      • piranhaconda@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        I bet it’ll be more like a subscription for an LLM upgrade, since they’re shoving “AI” into the OS, it’ll need a bit of local processing power but then you pay to connect it to a beefier server