Danke dafür. Die Info wurde überall unterschlagen und in meinem Kopf saß Merz einfach daneben und hat sich den Schwachsinn angehört. Merkel hat es ja auch schon mal versucht, Trump die EU zu erklären und ist offensichtlich gescheitert.

Edit: Merz hat wohl erst im Nachgang klargestellt und saß im Gespräch mit Trump wirklich nur danaben und hat Trumps Aussagen gegen Spanien nicht kommentiert https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/patzer-in-washington-merz-hat-respekt-bei-trump-verspielt-15313588.html

It’s quite interesting to see the reactions. I’m happy to call it “inefficient” instead? I’m not a native English speaker so maybe the choice of word indicated to some that I wanted to blame people, that was not my intention.

Maybe it’s the fact that many users here are very tech savvy and would never want to give away sovereignty of their devices, which I can fully relate to. But I believe this perspective totally skews what an average user needs in computational power for everyday tasks.

This “communal computing” solution is just an idea. Maybe it’s stupid and has many downsides I haven’t considered, but I think it’s quite apparent, that we’ll not be able to continue this way forever, especially if more and more people on this planet rightfully want access to all these amenities.

We feel very entitled to our technology, and I fully think it plays an important part in open society, having access to information etc.

But it’s simple ridiculous to believe that it’s some kind of basic human right for everyone to own one or many high end devices for stuff that could easily be done with a 5-10 year old device.

Relax my fellow human.

Neither did I imply that people should be forced to throw away their hardware, nor did I say that no one should own anything or completely surrender to any corporate overlords (actually I said the opposite).

All I meant is that sharing resources sometimes makes sense. When I see people buy very expensive and powerful machines for browsing the internet and regular office work all I can think is “what a waste”, blind consumerism. I think we can do better. What “better” is, I’m not certain either.

If you think about it: It is very wasteful for all of us to have local computation power at home. So many wasted resources as most people use their PCs only the fraction of the time. Same can be said for cars and many other appliances.

Maybe the solution are shared cloud resources, but obviously not owned by those big corporations, but owned by the people on a local, regional, national level?