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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
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      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