Post #4244392
2026-07-30 13:50 UTC
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@nusquam_tuta_fides@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-30 15:16
@janbeta@chaos.social My mother didn't understand why do I want a computer (and I didn't get one until the age of 16, long after all of my friends). She remains oblivious to most of modern technology until now. And back then, she loved to say "what would all of that be good for when there is no electricity?". Oh man, how I hated that. But today is today, and someone is pullig a cartoon villain style move, so stupid that nobody would believe it. "Hahaha, I will collect all the books in the world, feed it to my uber-robot and then destroy them so nobody else has access! Hahahaha!!" Except that insanity became real. And when we are on the verge of energy crises, and AI datacentres are burning the same amount of electricity as a medium size country (each), my mother's words get a new meaning. What will it all be good for without the plug in socket? A big fat d*ck. Energy consumption rises faster than ever, fuels won't last forever and nobody up there in the Silicon Valley gives one f*ck about renewables. Well, books would be the answer. You know, knowledge preservation for emergency situations and some other meaningless stuff. But no, let's make it into pulp. I don't know if they really don't see the d*ck of doom lurking, pretend they don't see, or actively summon it?
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@SupportGrapheneOS_667@social.tchncs.de 2026-07-31 10:09
@janbeta@chaos.social Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 (And guess what, it is a book)