I dont necessarily agree that people shouldnt have been allowed. It would have been better to educate people on what they are using and how it can be used. I will give you credit on missing when data centers were used for something good. Not how I expected this interaction to end but I’ll take it.

The reason users dont know what they are doing is because corporations simplified the computer to such a degree that users do not need to learn anything about them to begin with.

The current implementation of data centers are inheritly capitalistic. They are not there for anything other than profit. There is no reason not to educate people on what they are actually doing when they connect to the internet, other than profit and power.

There is no reason for me to want a data center to exist in its current form. I will continue to be against them being built until we see them being used for good. (lmfao, good luck in this economy)

Why do they need all that when most things can be done on a simple arm SBC? Most “online resources” dont need to exist to begin with. We dont need 30,000,000 AI generated articles. We don’t need 7,000 different social media sites. We don’t need tracking cookies, advertising, or any other of the stupid bullshit that came with Web 2.0. We were doing fine before corpo shills ruined the internet. ActivityPub is a perfect example of how the internet SHOULD be. A single user instance costs almost nothing at all to host. If you remove the “profit incentive” the internet would be a lot more efficient.

“it works this way at the one data center I work at so they must all work this way”

third grade level thinking.

https://www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/8/14/data-centers-and-the-water-crisis

“Traditionally, data centers use evaporative cooling. This water is drawn from a groundwater aquifer or surface water source (lake, river, or stream). Water usage depends on both local climate conditions as well as the type of cooling system, but much of it rises as water vapor into the atmosphere, is carried away by prevailing winds, and becomes unavailable for reuse near its source”

Are you using all of the computer power effectively? Does it know how to dynamically allocate resources and move containers around to meet demand?

You think I’m just fucking around and don’t understand container orchestration?

I am sorry but you are way oversimplifying how this all works.

No, I’m not. Data centers overcomplicate how the internet should have worked.

keep editing and moving the goalpost though.

“as a member of the system, I do believe the system is efficient”

thats great one data center is using solar. How about you go make the rest of them do that so my electric bill goes back down.

My homelab doesnt run that hot so I dont need holes in the rood during winter. It runs cooler than most gaming PCs. It also barely uses any power.

I specifically mentioned solar, and you think the world is better with all our data being controlled by capitalists? You think anything about what’s happening in data centers is “efficient”? lol ok.

This dumbass doesnt know about self hosting. No water pollution involved. Bonus points if you have solar.

If you were truly paranoid youd log into every site every time with an offline password manager protected by a yubikey.

Have you done it? Where did you move from, where did you move to? Did you have living relatives? Did you have in demand experience? Are you gay, transgender, or queer in any way? In what ways is the country you moved to better than the one you moved from? How much time did you have to spend total for moving, including research, applying for visas, visiting the country, learning the culture, moving your family, finding a job etc?

or are you just blowing it out your ass?

BTW you forgot to complain about the post being political.

Mom and pop shops cant afford to pay you

wonder who lobbied for that to be that way

Isnt this a feature in base Firefox? You can tell it to delete all cookies on close except for sites you add exceptions for

no one has mentioned peazip yet so

peazip. is another option.

ykno what thats fair.

i like hey there NSA. very lemmy coded song.

Dan bull?

the implication being that we will have brain implant technology thats for the people and not purely surveillance shows this is a work of fiction.

this is like someone making a digital 2D artwork, and someone printing it out, and then drawing their own and saying “LOOK, THE COMPUTER DID IT BETTER SO CLEARLY THE COMPITER MADE ART!”

completely ignoring the original artist.

inb4

why politics in shitpost comm?!?

https://youtu.be/p3Eb7SZtjcU

unrelated to ur text post, related to image

edit: read your text post, bro wtf… this is a shitpost community.

go checkout the mental health community or an anarchism or smth lmao

makes me want to try running some old XP games

Sex is politics, mods take this down