I guess we can support open hardware projects like RISC-V, and homegrown chips. DIY chips will be expensive and very limited at first, so hopefully hobbysts will prioritize efficiency while they get better.
Fortunately we won't ever see a shortage of monitors and input devices, because then how would we consume the rent-a-remote-desktop services.
Honestly; I don't know. I don't think there really is a viable solution that preserves consumer computation. Most of the young people I know don't really know or care about computers. Actually, most people at large that I know don't know or care about computers. They're devices that play videos, access web storesfronts, run browsers, do email, save pictures, and play games for them. Mobile phones are an even worse wasteland of "I don't know and I don't care". The average person doesn't give a shit about this being a problem. Coupled with the capital interests of making computing a subscription-only activity (leading to market activity that prices out consumers and lobbying actions that illegalize it), this spells out a very dire, terrible future for the world where computers require government and corporate permission to operate on the internet, and potentially in ones home.
Things are bad and I don't know what can be done about it because the balance of power and influence is so lopsided in favor of parties who want to do bad.
Presumably the answer is the same as nearly every real problem we face today: organize. Yes, it will be tough to organize around this problem specifically, but imagine a truly muscular working class movement like once existed in the early 20th century in many places: they raised armies, published their own newspapers, ran radio stations, started universities, even ran cooperative factories, all under the active opposition of capital. Surely a modern version of such a movement would recognize the need for secure, trustable, affordable, ad-free computing devices and invest accordingly.
It will take decades to build this power, just like it did then, but the alternative (which we are witnessing in slow motion in the meantime) is too grim to let stand.
ASalazarMX|12 days ago
Fortunately we won't ever see a shortage of monitors and input devices, because then how would we consume the rent-a-remote-desktop services.
shit_game|13 days ago
Things are bad and I don't know what can be done about it because the balance of power and influence is so lopsided in favor of parties who want to do bad.
ElevenLathe|12 days ago
It will take decades to build this power, just like it did then, but the alternative (which we are witnessing in slow motion in the meantime) is too grim to let stand.