Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC depend on oil, gas, helium, sulphur, and bromine coming from the region, or through the Strait of Hormuz.
Marko Papic, chief strategist at BCA Research … predicts a severe hit to chip production if the strait isn’t back in operation within a month.
Could mean higher PC component prices, or even a halt in production. Could mean global recession.
No, it won’t. It will cause more of the supply to be reallocated away from consumers into enterprise, and that is exactly what the big tech companies want to see happen.
Having access to a computer and phone is as much of a necessity to survive in modern society as internet is. When personal computing is unaffordable to the point where subscription computing is a good enough “deal” for consumers to jump on, the ball will start rolling towards the inevitable price squeeze that we have no choice but to accept.
It’s so much worse than the rent they will charge us, brother.
If you thought Flock cameras were a bad situation, imagine not being able to query, read, write, or probably even speak about topics that they decide are “unpatriotic” or “satanic”.
LGBTQIA+, anti-Christianity, anti-capitalist, all that shit they declared were “terror group activity” that sounded like McCarthy red scare bullshit? Imagine being gay and not being able to talk about it IN YOUR OWN HOME. Imagine not being able to criticize politicians in private. Imagine being forced to do Christianity when you aren’t Christian.
Imagine not owning any electronics and being held under suspicion of plotting against the government, even if you’re that guy who thinks he’s so damn smart by not participating, he’s not falling for that…while the world crumbles around him, you guys are dumb not him. (Ok bro hopefully we don’t find out)
These motherfuckers think they are gonna make automated kill bots which eliminate any worker drones in the hive that do not bend to their queen bee.
Our only hope, our ONLY hope, is that they are as incompetent as they appear to be.
The only difference between right now and then is that right now they aren’t doing anything about it. They already have the data about people’s opinions and leanings as a side effect of the massive network of tracking built for targeted advertising.
It will obviously be worse when we’re stuck renting computers, but what you’re describing is a today problem just as much as it’s a future problem. The only reason it hasn’t turned full 1984 is because they haven’t gone full mask off yet.