Computer Ownership is coming to an End and that's Sad

I generally dislike being an oldman screaming of inevitable DOOM but this entire AI discourse puts me in a kind of mindspace that I feel the need to scream into a pillow.

I've put years to get a job and work in gamedev industry so my views might be skewed but it does seem like games' field have been one of the major pivot points in recent developments.

So SONY made moves to discontinue disc production that made waves -- people started "reclaiming" ownership of their games and eventually the very hardware. LLMs plays a vital role in all of this because myriad of people gained computational powers and software literacy insights nobody ever has accounted for.

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Now while I'm happy to see "customers" (as much as I hate that word) leveraging for agency, I can't shake off the thought that we are now spiraling into a world where ultimate decisions will be put into action to stop it.

In mere months/weeks/days users are jailbraking firmware/hardware that has decades of exotic developments to make it as closed as possible. That puts a shade at all of the vendors and manufacturers as noone can now provide security measures for IP protection.

People are moving beyond preservation and legitimate access as some decide to target established software and companies they don't like: point in case is the Adobe suite being reversed engineered from and into standalone executables. This puts companies developing commercial software at risk when publishing any binaries to public.

All that using technology that has been consistently straining hardware production making manufacturers provide better support to "Artificial Intelligence", producing boards better fit for datacenters' array racks and raising prices now way beyond regular customer's budget.

Putting all three factors together:
> board vendors can't provide affordable or massively produces products;
> manufacturers of prebuilt systems (such as PlayStation) are less likely to massively produce machines that can't guarantee Intellectual Property protection to devs and can't even claim exclusivity on running software they sell;
> and Software Developers that would have to deal with their programs being dissected on day 1 after release..
I'm afraid we are looking at a future where only technology available to your average Joe is a dumb terminal accessing their storage and computational powers on the cloud; marketed as "accessible to anyone", "no need for regular expensive upgrades or maintenance" that would ultimately be controlled and exposed environment.

I hope I'm wrong, I don't want to see middle tier Personal Computers as a luxury (again) but I do see shots being fired and if that future is coming, it's being decided now.

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I don't post much - in fact, this is probably the first time I've put my thoughts to a text that isn't a poorly made joke or an attempt to promote my skills hoping somebody would hire me - so publishing this I'm also battling my fears of expressing anything.

Ystävällisin Terveisin,

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