[RE]

You could see the end of the true "Personal Computer" when the Netbooks, Tablets, Smartphones and Cloud Computing took off.  99% of people just use a computer for communications and entertainment.  They don't need or care about actual computing power, except for the Graphics card of course.  It's actually a little surprising you can still DIY build at all.

Centralization with Dumb Terminals is the Rentier model, when software disappeared fromm Best Buy, I knew the whole thing was Doomed.  The net has turned to garbage anyhow, so as a tech that once held the potential for freeing and uplifting humanity, it has turned into an epic failure.

RE

[TDoS]

Is it worth pointing out that in American Socialism this nonsense would not exist?  A planned economy centered on human needs would not allow this bubble.

Such is the hope of its supporters anyway. During the last national elections folks seemed to be more interested in fascism. Mandami appears to be pitching his verwion of it pretty well. I suppose, on the grounds that if the Republicrats can lean farther right, the Democans can try leaning farther left. RE can have his prior protein rations restored, and you can get cheaper health care maybe, and higher taxes because you own property that can't be hidden or moved very easily. Always hated the idea of buying a house for that reason, if more closely resembles a financial anchor.   

[K-Dog]

Folks seemed to be more interested in fascism.

TELEGRAPHINDIA.COM 2026-06-29

New York Times columnist fact-checks Elon Musk on ‘no deaths’ due to USAID cuts

Elon Musk, accusing him of spreading misleading information, after the world’s richest man claimed no one could name even one person who had died due to foreign-aid cuts in the USAID programme.

Yamah Freeman, a 23-year-old woman who died during childbirth after Musk "stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia"; Gbessey Kiadu, a one-year-old who died of malaria.

"Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him," Kristoff wrote.

And many others.  The trouble with Fascists is that their definition of who people are is very narrow.

[K-Dog]

THELASTFARM.SUBSTACK.COM 2026-03-08

How Socialists Should Govern, Part 1

On using the capitalist state against itself.

THELASTFARM.SUBSTACK.COM 2026-07-02

How Socialists Should Govern, Part 2

Giving the working class an inch so it can take a mile.