I hear that. Unfortunately, my 2014 laptop got bricked by one of those incessant monthly Cumulative Quality Updates that Microsoft is damn fond of and it glitched so badly that it just goes through and endless loop of attempting to repair. And of course all of my medical and financial documents are stored on it and bit-level encrypted with nothing stored in the cloud as I don't trust any big tech companies with access to such data! But those bloody AI Data Centers have started to buy up ALL of RAM, CPUs, GPUs, HDDs and Nvme SSDs so that I can't get parts to build one and prebuilt are too expensive. 🤬 My hatred of these companies is beyond words to express adequately. I don't wish to sound overly paranoid but Western Digital one of the largest Hard Disk Drive makers recently announced that they have halted ALL consumer sales of their drives for the rest of 2026 and don't currently intend to resume consumer sales until late 2028 or possibly 2029. Tell me that this isn't suspicious that big tech doesn't intend for the average consumer to be able to afford or even obtain a new computer until AFTER the presidential election in 2028? They want us to be restricted to Phones and Web-based services that they (Larry Ellison's Oracle and Thiel's Palantir) can control or at least significantly influence!

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