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hunter

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8. The tech bros are making it difficult for us to buy our own fully capable computers...

Reply to Tasmanian Devil (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 03:10 AM

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... and operate them outside of their clouds.

ALL the typical consumer crap computers and small business "solutions" are forcing users into the cloud.

The cost of building highly capable machines of our own that do not depend on cloud services is skyrocketing as all the latest technology is sucked up in the construction of new data centers. Anyone who is buying high end components to build their own computers will tell you that.

Are we tacitly giving up the right to run our own computers as we see fit independent of any "cloud?"

Why does everything have to be attached to the internet?

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