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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
So, tariffs make consumer electronics incredibly expensive in the US, if they can be found at all.
MS, Google, etc subsidize new devices, in part, by making them thin clients to cloud services. I mean, even moreso than they already are.
Those cloud services all have AI deeply embedded to them.
And that's it. Americans can't talk, read, or write anything, except what gets filtered through those neo feudal corporate LLMs. Propaganda doesn't even cover it. The digital paper will just refuse to carry the words, unless they're framed in a way the paper maker approves of.