Post #1305106
2026-04-01 10:35 UTC
Cloud providers will have identified self-hosting, community-organized services, and digital sovereignty campaigns as a threat, in the same way Microsoft identified free software as a threat in the 1990s and 2000s, and they will want to stamp out that threat. Keeping prices high to make self-hosting uneconomical is one way to do this
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@dpk@chaos.social 2026-04-01 10:37
Isn’t it curious how Apple has brought out its cheapest laptop ever at a time when hardware is otherwise at its most expensive in a long time? It’s an underpowered client for cloud services Welcome to the future of computing. The ‘thin client’ dream of the 90s is here!
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-04-01 10:57
@dpk A used / reconditioned MacBook M1 might be better value and certainly no slower than the Neo 🙂🤷♂️
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@bart@floss.social 2026-04-01 21:10
@dpk I disagree because capitalism.