The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
I’d wager that in 10 years, it will be illegal to own your own hardware.
Edit: pay attention to what’s currently happening in the tech and political sphere. Big tech corporations are a new branch of government and the end goal that most of these CEO’s want is a change to how the world is run. Read Curtis Yarvin’s slop diatribes for an insight into the ideology behind the global right.
Fearmongering garbage.
A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It’s just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments.
Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He’s the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it’s headed.
Or free money. Take the wager! Why don’t you fine folk both put your money where your sermingly-confidently-omniscient mouths are?
because I don’t eat my momey sir
It won’t be illegal, it will be unavailable. We just won’t have access to anything cause they won’t make it. Why make something they can only charge once for when they can rent the same equipment and earn multiples of what it would have sold for
You and I have come to the same conclusion. Compute as a service. I foresee it one step further - anyone with unlicensed personal compute that isn’t tied to a corporate subscription will not be legal.
Then I will be a criminal, again. If “they” implement the on OS ID, even if we are exempt from the identifying info on our systems (linux), there won’t be anywhere to really visit online anymore and as I said (here? another thread?) once my pixel 6 is dead I will be going the dumb phone route. No google play, no QR scanning, so I guess no more browsing except for the few non compliant sites. Will IRC networks need to comply? That would be my last stop (00s) before going back to the 80s where I read books, went outside, and didn’t worry about anything outside my little child world though it is hard not knowing what is going on in the world, tried it a few times. Hell, after my kinda “smart” tv dies (it doesn’t require an internet connection, has not been connected since I got it) I don’t know that I will find one of them that doesn’t require internet connection just to play a video off my pc. I saw shit going south 3 decades ago, never thought it would get so bad in my life
The world is not America, there is no chance this would ever possibly happen.
I admire your viewpoint and wish it was the case. America will use its military and economic force to bend the world to do what it wishes. It already does that now and they’ve shown intent to further this behaviour.