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First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background. It's uncon
by selfhoster11 5y ago
First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background.
It's unconscionable to suggest that one needs multiple computers for various purposes when they are all general purpose computers on the inside.
- criddell 5y agoIt's no more unconscionable than to suggest that a person may need a pickup truck for their job in construction during the week and a sports car for their racing hobby on the weekend.
- selfhoster11 5y agoExcept that the very point of a general purpose computer is that, to use your analogy, your car can spontaneously sprout parts and reform the chassis as needed. Aluminium frame with a pair of wings and four jet engines one week for that overseas trip, a heavy duty frame with a winch for the construction job on Friday, a napalm launcher for fighting kudzu in your front yard (a stretched analogy, but you can see where I'm going with this). All of this is enabled by software, which costs nothing at all to replicate unless it's restricted via copyright law. This is very much unlike every other hobby, where specialised tools cost money to duplicate.
- criddell 5y agoI wish it were just a matter of software. It would be nice if my iPad could magically have a GPU as good as my gaming PC or my gaming PC could become a 12" tablet with a 10 hour battery life.