2026-10-20 01:26 UTC
The AI push is really about buying up all the compute components to make independent, individual ownership impractical.
Then we all have to buy walled garden dumb terminal tablets that rely on cloud services to function.
They can watch, censor, and block anything they want. And we pay them for the privilege.
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-10-20 03:24
I think a large part is that if you have enough compute you can now log and analyze proactively every person’s online speech and activities.
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@Artisian@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 17:29
I don’t believe this. I see no plans by Nvidia to burn down their production lines once the datacenters finish. They’ll want to keep selling boards, and eventually either production catches up (making PC boards is hard) or demand slows down (only so many cities will let themselves be ripped off), and the home PC returns. Datacenters will also be upgrading hardware before it all breaks down, and so there’ll be cheap server boards flooding the market in a couple years.