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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

No big. Guess I'll have to wait another year before upgrading my laptop. Sorry for the loss of business.

[–] ManfredMumpitz@feddit.org 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

and if it doesn't, let em have it. I'll cancel my internet, and start overloading all other infrastructure with confusion from not knowing how to deal with humans and paper..

idgaf. I can't and won't be forced to comply to a subscription.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I mean, today I saw a chocolate company ad saying no AI was needed. For chocolate. Anti-AI in a chocolate ad.

If Sees Candy is getting in on AI hate to sell shit, obviously people are tired of this crap. The bubble will burst.

[–] halezinflames@lemmus.org 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And people who have an issue with this are called luddites

Absolute clown show

[–] grue@lemmy.world 40 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

We've been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that's because the Luddites were justified too!

They weren't against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Gotta warp the truth to misdirect from the real problems.

[–] halezinflames@lemmus.org 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I've only heard that term being used to insult, that's actually a real thing?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 44 minutes ago

I've never heard it used as an insult. How is it even supposed to be offensive? "Har har you're a person who doesn't like tech"?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago
[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 34 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Give it 10 years and civilians won't be able to own PCs... We will be forced to the cloud computers. And by that time AI surveillance and profiling will already have its infrastructure built.

Its already here. Most "regular" users already depend for most part of there digital life on subscription based cloud computing. Al lot of people don't even own a PC anymore, only mobile devices.

[–] nehal3m@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

We need to figure out how to do our daily things with very few computing resources. Gaming and heavy workloads excepted, most things we do ought to be possible on 15 year old CPU’s and 2GB. All we need is efficiency and low expectations. Fuck em.

[–] Leafimo@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

And even gaming is possible with those specs: retro gaming and emulation, thousands of excellent games

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. We went to the moon with, like, 1 MHz CPU and 2 KB RAM.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Not even. The Intel 8008 didn't even break 1MHz and that was a few years later.

I don't know what they used on the moon landing, though.

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 0 points 56 minutes ago

If you take gaming out of the equation though I don't really need any sort of computing power.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago