Post #4412678
2026-08-06 07:31 UTC
@subm3rge@infosec.exchange "By making a personal computer impossibly expensive to build or own, the base for FOSS erodes quickly. If all available compute is only by cloud supplied services, then any and all development will be beholden to the platform owner."
You're not wrong on the assertion, I believe, but there is a subtlety about this:
Home Compute aside of, say, power #gaming and edge #AI, is perfectly viable on FOSS-driven hardware from 2010 or so, no need for *new* stuff at all.
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@ftranschel@norden.social 2026-08-06 07:35
@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.