• Malica@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Because that way they can rent computing back to us while controlling what information is fact and what is fiction.

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      1 day ago

      This has been obvious for a little while now but it just doesn’t click for people or they simply do not care. It is precisely the idea behind a Chromebook. Everything in the cloud. By now, a couple of generations have grown up using them almost entirely and it has already been normalized for them.