Image generation can easily be done locally with open weight models. You can avoid businesses.

And sure I can spin up a home lab with more functionality and power than was even available 20 years ago. But what have I actually gained?

A home lab with more functionality and power than was even available 20 years ago.

Things such as:

Cheap mass storage and a home network connection with upload speeds that make hosting media streaming and ‘cloud’ storage out of your closet an affordable possibility.

Access to large, quality, high resolution displays that don’t cost multiple thousands of dollars.

High performance portable computers that draw significantly less power.

Cheap, high capacity, battery technology to power said devices.

Mobile data networks with orders of magnitude more data bandwidth.

All of this is to say: The ability to own and control all of the technology that you depend on without needing to rent services from a corporation.

I don’t need iCloud, when I have a 2Gb connection attached to a 24TB storage array. I can do better than Spotify, play the music that I want to listen to without serving me ads or providing my private data to be used by some profit-seeking company. I don’t have to give away my privacy to Microsoft just to be able to have a functioning desktop PC. I don’t require Amazon’s storage and processing to have smart security cameras. Google isn’t required for my smartphone to work, my cellular provider doesn’t get to dictate which apps are permanently installed.

All of this is possible now for orders of magnitude less capital and operating expenses than it was 20 years ago.

I don’t need to throw away my computer because Microsoft has decided that it’s much easier to enforce control over their operating system if your hardware prevents you from modifying the software running on your machine. I don’t have a drawer full of old Apple cables which were only created in order to sell you a $2 piece of copper for $39.99. My movie streaming service doesn’t randomly decide that I need to pay another $5/mo or insert advertisements into my TV shows and I am not at risk of having access to my cloud storage permanently revoked because of some clause in a 700 page Terms of Service that changes every other week.

Technology is so much better, more private, safer and more affordable now. As long as you’re willing to learn how to use it.

Unfortunately, the profit is almost entirely in fostering the world’s population into a state of technological dependence on these proprietary services and devices. It’s hard to convince someone to overcome their fear of a terminal when they can pay a monthly fee for the rest of their life in order to avoid it.

2018 makes more sense, that’s when backup cameras were mandatory so since they were putting in a screen manufacturers made every car have an ‘infotainment’ center and with all of that processing power comes logging and other privacy invading features.

It’s local right until the law enforcement gets into Bluetooth range with the right encryption keys to download all of the data for the past year.

Not anymore. Ubuntu replaced the no OS option.

It’s only Windows and None, they’ve replaced the pre-installed Ubuntu with an installation guide.

From FAQ:

You can choose the operating system that best fits your needs, Windows 11 and Linux are both supported. For Linux, Ubuntu and Fedora are officially supported with installation guides, and the Framework Community offers additional setup guides for many other distributions; other operating systems like OpenBSD may also work but are community-supported.

Modern technology is great. It’s massively cheaper and more performant for orders of magnitude less money.

Consumer technology on the other hand, is cursed.

The problem is that nobody needs to know how to use technology anymore. Every piece of consumer hardware and software is designed so that the company does all of the work for you and then rents you the fruits of the technology. Now you’re eternally dependent on someone else to operate your technology for you because you’re constantly paying the people that are ensuring your technological ignorance.

Don’t worry about learning how to store mp3s or manage your music Library! Just pay Spotify, YouTube Premium, or Apple Music $10/mo!

Don’t worry about needing to learn how to backup your data or to store you photos, just give Apple $29.99/mo! Shopping for hardware is hard, learning the difference between a Megapixel and a Megabyte is for nerds! Just buy the iPad, iLaptop, iCamera, iEarbuds, it only costs 50% more than it should!

Dealing with .mp4 and .mkv files, too complicated! Don’t worry about needing to learn anything about movies, Netflix/Hulu/Disney/Paramount/Amazon/AppleTV/etc will gladly take your $20/mo and do everything for you!

Don’t like your computer’s OS being filled with advertising, spyware and AI? Too bad! Your only options are 1. Live in Apple’s Walled Garden, 2. Put your entire life’s worth of private data on the auction block for the lowest bidding advertiser for the benefit of Microsoft’s shareholders or 3. Give your cellphone provider and Google root access to your entire life!

Yes, this is a ‘Just use Linux’ comment.

Yeah, the hype is always about making absurd promises and predictions of The End of All Things.

In reality, it’s like having a half competent Jr. security researcher. Nothing superhuman. The bonus is that it’s really hard to make new security researchers and so they’re too expensive for random github projects to employ.

Having a ‘good enough’ tool to check over code is an improvement over the current state of things, but it isn’t like we’re on the brink of a new generation of AI-enabled hacks or anything. Just a slightly better automated code reviewer.

I’ve worked around an ancient (32nm) lithography machine, it may as well be alien technology as far as maintenance is concerned.

It’s very much a ‘the light is on, something broke. call the machine priests’ kind of situation.

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I can’t think of a reading that would be misleading. It’s common knowledge (among the people who would care about such an article) that TSMC uses ASML machines, as ASML has a near monopoly on EUV litography machines.

‘Pricey new tool from ASML’ can only mean the high NA EUV machines as ASML really only makes one kind of pricey tool.

Acting self-righteous and outraged feels good.

Some people haven’t learned that this doesn’t mean that it is good.

Don’t worry, they’ll let us eat cake

We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.

If you get banned from their services and you can’t access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.

Some people just want to fight because social media conditions us to be outraged and angry.

Here comes the Nazi Bar analogies.

Now everyone posting in this thread which promotes Framework has become a Nazi by the transitive property of Nazihood. Now your family are Nazis with Nazi pets who eat from a pet store that is run by a Nazi (on account of supporting Nazis by selling them pet food, you see) that banks at a Nazi bank in a Nazi financial system run by a Nazi country on a Nazi planet.

…and just like that, every person and thing in the world has become a Nazi. Thanks a lot FRAMEWORK, if only we’d listened to the toxic trolls and avoided being associated with any person on the off chance that we’d catch their 4th person inherited nazihood.

/s, obviously.

I once knew someone that claimed to get gStreamer working, I think they were just bragging.

There’s no topic to engage upon.

Everyone doesn’t know the things you know.

You are here, in a new post, making conclusory statements without backing them up. How do you expect other people to become aware of this thing that you think is so important if your (or whoever’s) first reaction is to attack people as if they disagree with you instead of explaining your argument?

It reads like drama farming and the toxic behaviors of the other people on ‘your side’ only adds to that impression.

Support or don’t support who you want.

How you and your friends here present your arguments and interact with the community appears more like chasing the high of outrage and drama farming than attempting to engage in a conversation on the topic.

Doing things like putting words into other people’s mouth, and then attacking the strawman of your own creation for example:

Not supporting fascists is self-righteous now?