The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.

The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?

How do?

Oh I’m not advocating for hopelessness. Radical change is required. That will only happen if we reframe the curated, manufactured narratives and assert reality. The revolution will not be televised because it takes place in peoples minds.

It makes a lot of sense that we live in oligarchies when you realise that the entire economic system — every business — is an oligarchy; competing with other oligarchies. Businesses where the majority owner/shareholder is 1 person are basically dictatorships. Family owned businesses are dynasties. We’re really a stones throw from the feudalism and monarchs of old.

It’s kind of mentally ill to believe that the entire economic system could be structured this way, but the political system could be democracy; the exact opposite…

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Constant growth till death, like cancer.

“Fascist oligarchy of capitalist dictators continue to implement totalitarian surveillance apparatus. Majority of talking chimps sleepwalking into dystopia.”

That’s because it is a legitimate competitor. It’s the freedom OS, and only way for the world to escape Americas big tech fascism.

I’m not American. I’m just smart enough to see the same signals everywhere you feel that neoliberalism and traditional conservatism is “working”, including Canada.

Sure it is, champ 👍

Because we live in corporate dictatorships ruled by an oligarchy and political class of mentally ill narcissists and pedophiles.

Even the AI upscales are generally worse. I prefer Bluray quality 4k porn as much as any guy, but I’d prefer to watch a pixelated 480p than 99% of upscales which look like rotoscoped animation.

They have to comply with court orders. You can’t run a business and ignore the government and legal system; they will throw the book at you.

Don’t use proton to do anything that could be considered a crime in the EU.

If you use zfs for docker, dbs and vms you don’t have to shut down anything. Just snapshot and send/recv to sync snapshots to another ZFS drive.

You can even mount and copy the latest snapshot to the cloud with rsync/rclone; probably also borg/restic/kopia. Each applications state will be internally consistent if the snapshot is performed for all data at the same time. If you’re paranoid you can stop everything for a few mins to perform the snapshot, but it’s not really necessary.

This is basically guaranteed under late stage capitalism. As the richest of the rich accumulate a greater proportion of wealth they just buy more and more assets (when they’re not buying politicians, lobbyists, media empires, etc), artificially inflating the value of those assets well beyond what was ever possible in a competitive market.

They command so much wealth that they can increase the value of their existing assets just by buying more, driving up the value of those assets via reduced liquidity and artificial scarcity (see housing). It grants them greater and greater opportunity and power to manipulate markets and extract greater and greater profit margins from everyone poorer than they are. It’s a cruel, psychopathic system structured to benefit the most immoral, unethical, and undeserving of criminals.

Companies are built on deterministic, predictable processes and workflows. A stochastic tool which randomly hallucinates correlations as fact, absent of critical thought, introduces a huge amount of risk/uncertainty; especially regarding data security.

It’s not surprising most corporations aren’t seeing a productivity boost, because the product, tooling, and ecosystem are simply not at a level of maturity where they can be trusted with any core or critical tasks. When you add in the potential for significant future price increases, and other unknown impacts outside your control, choosing to voluntarily make your business dependent on some 3rd parties ever changing product sounds completely insane.

Don’t trust backblaze or any service that claims “unlimited”.

The overwhelming feedback I’ve seen is to “KISS” and use some combination of restic/borg/kopia and rclone to sync data or local backups to cloud storage like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/.

Restic/borg are more for whole system backups, where kopia is more for data (a central kopia server/repository can deduplicate and version data from multiple machines). Rclone is good for syncing local backups to cloud services, or perhaps e2ee synchronisation between machines (though it doesn’t do versioning and multiple machines will cause problems).

This is the most flexible, long-term, as you can just update the storage backend and transfer or re-upload everything as necessary.

It’s like the wedding or funeral tax, where all items cost extra for no reason, other than exploitation.

America has been rotting from the inside since WW2 (MIC, FBI and CIA terrorism, etc), then supercharged with Reagan. Frankly, it’s surprising it took this long.