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0 pointseeZah7Ux5y ago0 comments

> He wants a computer with specific features, but doesn't want pay for the models that offer those features because they are too expensive?

Correct. He wants a computer with less complexity and less spying "features", and the market is failing hard at that.

> reality has constraints

No, these are entirely artificial restrictions. Companies invested very significant efforts to implement DRM, management engine, AMT, all sort of telemetries and backdoors.

The emerging model of "privacy for the rich, surveillance for everybody else" is it expected consequence.

EDIT: wow, downvoted to -3 already? Truly shining the hacker culture in "hacker" news /s

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Retric5y ago

Surveillance is profitable for the computer manufacturers. The “barebones” version therefore costs more. SmartTV’s, cellphones, etc don’t make a lot per person but it’s enough you need to go up market to find any real privacy.

Koshkin5y ago

I don’t know, a $1200 for a phone sounds expensive enough.

Retric5y ago

Up market as in brands. Samsung can’t exactly advertise less surveillance as a feature, this a “$5” feature ends up costing vastly more.

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0 pointseeZah7Ux5y ago0 comments

> He wants a computer with specific features, but doesn't want pay for the models that offer those features because they are too expensive?

Correct. He wants a computer with less complexity and less spying "features", and the market is failing hard at that.

> reality has constraints

No, these are entirely artificial restrictions. Companies invested very significant efforts to implement DRM, management engine, AMT, all sort of telemetries and backdoors.

The emerging model of "privacy for the rich, surveillance for everybody else" is it expected consequence.

EDIT: wow, downvoted to -3 already? Truly shining the hacker culture in "hacker" news /s

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Retric5y ago

Koshkin5y ago

I don’t know, a $1200 for a phone sounds expensive enough.

Retric5y ago

Up market as in brands. Samsung can’t exactly advertise less surveillance as a feature, this a “$5” feature ends up costing vastly more.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse