This is particularly, transparently obvious for news sites. News is worthless if it is old. Yet still AI literally reads the work of journalists and then cuts them out of the equation, denying the journalists the revenue that pays them to produce the news. Its like the scorpion and the frog.
Recently, my Steam shader processes have gobbled up every scrap of my excessive 64GB of RAM and 16GB of swap until the executioner kills it… or kills system monitor or btop or whatever I’m using to monitor or document it like a bloodthirsty monster.
Pretty simple. Our relationship started when we were in our early 20’s. Over the course of the ~10 years we were together we became different people. By the time we were in our 30’s, what she wanted in a partner changed and I was no longer what she wanted. Figuring it all out hurt and sucked… but I’m in a good place these days and consider it an important learning experience in my past.
I’m horrified that you could possibly advocate for allowing the consumer to have any real control of their own devices. Have you considered the security implications of not requiring devices to be 100% dependent on the manufacturer’s server? Users might be able to use the device without first installing the company’s app! The user might be able to use the device without the company knowing about it and selling that data for additional profit or using it to train it’s AI.