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2026-08-06 07:35 UTC
@subm3rge@infosec.exchange Having a 1.5kg laptop with 24 cores is "nice", and arguable more *powerful* than an ARM SoC with ~50nm die.
However, the actual usefulness diminishes sharply behind typical deskwork tasks that can absolutely be done in a performant way on 4 cores in a lean #linux #distro.
And all of that has been reverse engineered to the X so big tech really has no moat against people doing their own thing.
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@subm3rge@infosec.exchange 2026-08-06 09:06
@ftranschel@norden.social This works well as long as it's relatively ubiquitous. I fear for the moment when the kids want a new machine, and everything that's available to buy is just a terminal/tty to some cloud platform. Or when someone new, that has the "hacker" gene, wants to do something cool with minimal friction - they want see their idea come to life ASAP, so they go with Claude, instead of learning to use gcc or Python. PCs are an ecosystem that promotes FOSS evolution. Capitalism and techbros wants to kill that ecosystem [too], it seems.