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> random tech video > look inside > “they want to prevent you from owning your own hardware”

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why is being a conspiracy theorist so normal now. microsoft is not trying to prevent you from buying hard drives for a home server

I forgot where I read this, but the behaviour was partially explained by TV-watching: the plot in TV is laid out methodically, so people will assume that it must be like that in real life and not...well just a coincedence or a just a bunch of nuanced things.

I don’t think its complicated. Companies that sell cloud compute etc would love for you to pay them rather than for you to not pay them. Incentives are aligned for them to prefer you renting from them!

maybe, but this is someone gesturing at the price chart for ram and ssds and saying “they” want to do this to hard drives as well

Geerling is cool though. He's just very autistic about SBCs and servers and radio he's actually pretty normal I guess? He doesn't talk about services much except media stuff iirc? Idk I met him and he seems pretty chill

O Liver they're in fear for their stuff from the big bad Microsoft, Corpos wanna stop them from owning & they've got their hardware locked O Liver they might call you an organ but you're still watching videos, Uploaders coming down with delusions but you know "that's how it goes"