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We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human (www.windowscentral.com)
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The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Sure, I might own the hardware

Not for long. The goal seems to be to make RAM, flash memory, and GPU's so expensive that most consumers will need to purchase low-powered client devices and subscribe to cloud computing business models. It's a handful of companies who are cornering the markets, controlling the supply, and seeking rents.

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago

We well make some new companies

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really see that happen. It would mean developers (or crappy AI code generators) would have to write efficient code for the low-powered client devices. The web is basically already other people's computers and look how memory hungry browsers are, or maybe more specifically the websites/apps that run in the browsers.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I bet it'll be more like a subscription for an LLM upgrade, since they're shoving "AI" into the OS, it'll need a bit of local processing power but then you pay to connect it to a beefier server