• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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      and if it doesn’t, let em have it. I’ll cancel my internet, and start overloading all other infrastructure with confusion from not knowing how to deal with humans and paper…

      idgaf. I can’t and won’t be forced to comply to a subscription.

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    And people who have an issue with this are called luddites

    Absolute clown show

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      We’ve been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that’s because the Luddites were justified too!

      They weren’t against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

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        I’ve only heard that term being used to insult, that’s actually a real thing?

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

          The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

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    Give it 10 years and civilians won’t be able to own PCs… We will be forced to the cloud computers. And by that time AI surveillance and profiling will already have its infrastructure built.

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      We need to figure out how to do our daily things with very few computing resources. Gaming and heavy workloads excepted, most things we do ought to be possible on 15 year old CPU’s and 2GB. All we need is efficiency and low expectations. Fuck em.