Yeah; you really have to figure out what products are worth your time.

Look up what’s integrated with HomeAssistant locally and that’s a good start.

“IoT via app linked with the manufacturer cloud” is bullshit bullshit bullshit, and there are fewer and fewer choices, especially in America. Try find ing a ZWave door lock, for example.

Think about the power Microsoft has when they have every business document on earth and an AI that can summarize vast quantities of them on an ongoing basis.

They’re taking control of free markets, of political movements.

If we can’t store or compute anything, we will be reliant on those with that power. Cloud providers. They will suck up all our data, analyze it with their AI, and charge us for the privilege.

They are forcing us to rent from them their ability to watch us and predict us.

Welcome to the global panopticon.

SK Hynix is also now thinking about exiting the consumer market.

There’s going to be a supply chain to rebuild if the bubble ever pops.

But it won’t. We’re screwed. They now have the network speed and the storage space to steal every file from every user (OneDrive, etc). And now they have AI agents to summarize all of it, solving the analysis issue. Lastly, if you don’t own your own compute, if windows is just a dumb-terminal to cloud services…

Remember that most businesses are “consumers”. Hell, Microsoft already owns all their accounts and logins now that Entra is live and SharePoint is in the cloud

The Negotiatior

Constamply

I thought that the 3d was pretty cool on the 3DS! Now I can’t find my New3DS XL, now that they’re apparently quite jailbreakable…

Well, on the flip side, my first smartphone was a Palm Prē, and I even installed the custom kernel to overclock it.

Still have it in a box somewhere too. That was such a great phone.

Now webOS is used by LG to spy on their smart TV customers.

For anyone who needs to read it: At the end of the day this is obscurity, not security; however obscurity is a good secondary defense because it buys time.

I too would be interested to learn how this leaked

That’s the goal.

No more personal computer. Only dumb terminal and cloud. You will rent your needs from the rich. You will own nothing and like it. Your income is their revenue stream, or you shall cease to function in society.

This is robbery.

It’s really sad to me that everyone sees this as just an annoying superfluous feature.

Doesn’t anyone else see why Microsoft is so fucking horny for this???

It’s a fucking panopticon! They’re trying to look at everything you produce and save (OneDrive) and now they’re trying to get their hands on what you think (what you ask Copilot) and the conclusions you come to (Copilot’s generated response).

They can know and control anything they want. Imagine how deep that goes? This is way beyond fucking banner ads. This is about picking and choosing winners in the global economy. This is about knowing who will fall before they do and hedging. This is about industrial espionage and being first to market. This is about silencing all political dissidents before they even speak publicly. This is true, actual, corporate dystopian shit. This is Minority Report but janky, and privatized.

This needs to be stopped.

Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?

What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.

We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.

Charlie Charlie Kirk-y / I just popped a Perc-y!

They keep trying to get him out

Found the guy who falls for this

This comment describes Brave browser

So they don’t get killed when Iran retaliates to whatever the fuck is about to happen next

He cannot cancel elections. Elections are state run, congresspeople’s terms still end, and there is no law that says otherwise. We can just go the fuck ahead without him.

The reality is that when she drove forward she was already dead

Further back for the mask off moment