“oh great, competition in a market with no competition. Horrible.”

Intel has already been making discrete GPUs for two generations and they are very cheap and aren’t the most performant but fantastic for the price.

I’d rather a non-US player enter the market like moorethreads, but because of us capitalist assholes, handicapping China competition for a long time they aren’t going to be able to make cards that are up to our performance standards till the 2030s probably

The original comment said Google, instead of Bezos, I have no idea why they edited their comment to this. Maybe they are thinking of Microsoft, who recently handed over encryption keys, but they don’t make phones anymore, lol.

As another said, a Pixel with Graphene OS is likely the most secure device you can have, even against an Apple product. Cellebrite, the software a lot of governments use to break into these phones can’t get into a Pixel device before first unlock with Graphene OS. I believe a number of Apple products are the same thing as they can’t be accessed before first unlock or lockdown mode, but your data is more secure in the hands of an open source developer than a massive capitalist company.

Also, a notable feature of GrapheneOS is automatic reboots after no use for any arbitrary time value you want, so your phone will always be in a “before first unlock” state if some steals it like the government. They also have lockdown mode as well, not sure how that works technically on Android beyond disabling biometrics.

Im pretty into self hosting and have a number of public facing services like 4get and SearXNG, those two don’t use that much data. Also host immich for myself and family to replace Google Photos. Some of the bigger data hogs.

Archive warrior - I run a Docker container that constantly scrapes, compresses, and uploads whatever data the internet archive team wants most. I’ve had it running for a couple years now and they’ve had me scraping Telegram. That does a couple hundred gigs a month.

I2P Router - The invisible internet project, it’s sort of like Tor, but in my opinion more secure and better because it uses garlic routing instead of more centralized servers. Although it’s way less popular than Tor and seems most people use it for torrenting. Either way, I recently started hosting a router because governments around the world are cracking down on freedom of speech and censoriship, and increasing their surveillance powers. So I want to support the network and help it grow, this by itself does ~1TB of upload and download a month. Everyone in the world should start pivoting to more secure and decentralized internet solutions like this. Fuck the government.

Linux ISOs torrents - I love Linux, what can I say?

Backup server - I have an off-site Raspberry Pi backup server at my friend’s house that I do nightly backups of my important data to. So just depending on how much I’ve built up since the last backup that can be modest in size.

Otherwise we have a sort of high bandwidth household with video content consumption.

Well, I guess they saw this legislation coming and are already trying to comply.

I can’t remember which vehicles, but I’ve seen some cars that have flush handles but are still mechanical. You push on one side and it mechanically pivots the handle out that you grab and pull. So you can still do the exact same thing for beauty standards/aerodynamics, just using a different design philosophy that is probably safer. Maybe it’s rivian I’m thinking of?

They’ve made substantial progress in the past 10 years. Sadly, the lack of access to EUVL machines is what’s really holding them back from making higher end and more competitive technologies.

They are actively working on making EUVL machines domestically, which would be incredible given ASML is the only organization in the world that currently makes them. Still, it’ll probably not be till the 2030s that they actually can get into production with that.

If this is a topic that interests you, GamersNexus did an awesome hour-long deep dive into a couple Chinese chip companies and what they’ve been making and how they are being unfairly handicapped by the west, and the incredible progress they are making despite that. This is sort of perfect timing for Chinese players to enter the market given Western companies are gouging consumers and losing the good will, pretty much every PC enthusiast in the world would be happy to buy Chinese products over Western ones based strictly on price of performance is up to par.

https://youtu.be/qzfhhAfxK-A

Good questions. I tried looking for some information but didn’t find much and their website refuses to load for me

When the law won’t hold these pigs accountable, the people will, eventually.

I paid $180 a month for unlimited data on cox, but they threatened to terminate my account after I passed 1tb of upload in a month, they were calling and telling me it’s a violation of their terms of service. I said I pay for fucking unlimited data, “that doesn’t include upload” you scummy little fucks, false fucking marketing in that case because you advertised UNLIMITED DATA.

I lucked out when I bought a house that has quantum fiber, I pay $50 a month for 500/500 and real unlimited. I push 4 - 8 tb of usage per month with about half being upload.

Better benefits and pay than most other options in a lot of areas, especially warehouse workers in smaller towns.

Honestly this Is 100% a silver lining, as more governments crack down on freedom tor and I2P will get more users, more development, better features, and more services and tools available through them. This is a win in this small area.

Unifi Ubiquiti products are one of the best option for completely local data hosting and camera services with really good “ai” detections all run locally, but they aren’t that cheap and you’ll need to buy one of their Unifi protect capable routers to get started, which is gonna be like $300 by itself.

Edit: Looks like they have a standalone recorder with a 3.5 inch drive bay but it’s still $200, and also most of their cameras are Ethernet. They do have a couple wireless options but not many.

“This is not a paywall” eat shit fuckers yes it is, my data makes you money.

The only thing you got me on there is making all my own food, which I also try to do when I have time. Everything else, yes, I do myself.

Why would I pay somebody money to do a shittier job than I can do.

But yes, I realized my original comment was a little insensitive and rude because I’m just sort of an asshole. So sorry about that.

As another commenter pointed out, I do have a good amount of privilege that allows me to do this stuff, and I’m thankful for that and should work on being less of a jerk.

Consumers are lazy and brain rotted, too much effort to build an htpc or do anything that protect yourselfs and your family’s data when the TV can just do it all for you, who cares that it’s a literal piece of spyware ad riddled garbage.

I guess I shouldn’t be blaming the consumer here, since it’s obviously the predatory capitalist company at fault. But still, I think most people are fucking dumb.