#personalcomputing — Public Fediverse posts

COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#GamersNexus #PC #PCSales #SalesCollapse #AI #PersonalComputing

COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#GamersNexus #PC #PCSales #SalesCollapse #AI #PersonalComputing

COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#GamersNexus #PC #PCSales #SalesCollapse #AI #PersonalComputing

COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#GamersNexus #PC #PCSales #SalesCollapse #AI #PersonalComputing

COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8
#GamersNexus #PC #PCSales #SalesCollapse #AI #PersonalComputing

“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.

But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.

The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.

“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”

“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”

#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>

Back in THE APPLE II AGE, the first encounters with computers for millions were defined by a software ecosystem including The Print Shop & early games.

Historians Laine Nooney & Finn Brunton explore the lasting cultural impact of this influential 1977 machine on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/the-apple-ii-age

@LaineNooney #AppleII #Apple #PersonalComputing

On Apple’s 50th anniversary, the Future Knowledge #podcast presents THE APPLE II AGE 🍎

A computer that didn’t just launch Apple but shaped how a generation discovered technology. Historians Laine Nooney & Finn Brunton explore how games, classrooms, and creative tools made the Apple II a cultural phenomenon.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/the-apple-ii-age

@LaineNooney #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #PersonalComputing

Ah, the good ol' days of 'personal computing'—a magical realm where mortals could write their own spells 🧙‍♂️✨. Now it's a tragic tale of consumerist zombies or engineering drones, desperately seeking that lost soap bubble of software 🍾🔮. But fear not, for Josh's uncle is here with photos to remind us of a time he never lived through! 📸😂
https://josh8.com/blog/personal_computing.html #personalcomputing #nostalgia #softwareengineering #consumerism #technologyhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Personal Computing (2022)

https://josh8.com/blog/personal_computing.html

#HackerNews #PersonalComputing #2022 #TechTrends #Innovation #BlogPost #FutureOfTech

The RAM pricing situation: Why it’s happening, what’s affected, and how long will it last

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/ram-pricing-situation-explainer/

The RAM pricing situation: Why it’s happening, what’s affected, and how long will it last

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/ram-pricing-situation-explainer/

The RAM pricing situation: Why it’s happening, what’s affected, and how long will it last

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/ram-pricing-situation-explainer/

The RAM pricing situation: Why it’s happening, what’s affected, and how long will it last

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/ram-pricing-situation-explainer/

The RAM pricing situation: Why it’s happening, what’s affected, and how long will it last

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/ram-pricing-situation-explainer/

Today I spent some time setting up my rpi4 - 4gb with raspbian os, on an external SSD, to be used as a backup "personal computing" device.

#rpi #personalcomputing

A quiet revolution is urgently needed: we must reclaim the understanding that we can use our computers and digital tools however we choose. This basic freedom of use and modification has been all but lost. You can use that old language nobody cares anymore about and have fun with it. You can use that old program if it suits your needs, without chasing the last shining bloated tool that anyone will ditch in a couple of months.
We should discard the idea that we need a subscription and a constant internet connection just to write a letter or edit a photo.

#personalcomputing

PC company Dell takes a step back from hyping Ai.
Will lack of consumer demand start the bubble bursting?
"The fact that a huge PC brand such as Dell/Alienware has decided to ditch the AI-first marketing that seems to otherwise permeate everything—and honestly still permeates—is entirely welcome, very refreshing, and hopefully the mark of things to come."
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/
#Computing #PersonalComputing #Ai #Dell

Re: The last part of the above quote, i.e. "Too often in this industry hardware is used to solve software problems."

This one will be quickly coming home to roost in the coming year(s)... Regardless of other Moore's Law aspects losing validity (or past tense already), the "law" also never considered the kind of extreme capital accumulations which would enable a few companies buying up major parts of the entire RAM/GPU market supply (without actually being able to or even wanting to use it[1]), just to transform (or terminate) the landscape/era of personal computing as we know it and so cement their monopolies...

Maybe similar to how #OpenSource culture provided tens of millions of years of free R&D and product development & maintenance labor for Big Tech™, the 50-60 year long era of personal computing provided more generally valuable insights into the types and behaviors people would use computing for. These insights came with the "costs" and maybe unintended side-effects of enabling more individual (and social/political) agency, authority, self-realization, self-organization, creativity and creation of alternatives to capital & state-controlled infrastructure/monopolies, especially since networks were added to the mix. Shouldn't have too much of that!

There might still be a separation of church and state (in some places), but capital and state have always been chums and are becoming ever more entangled everywhere. With the amount of AI & datacenter investments already done (incl. by govts), ROI is becoming increasingly questionable _UNLESS_ AI was just the shiny opportunity to entice sufficient amounts of people to partake and invest these exorbitant sums in this gigantic infrastructure build-up, but the goal was something much larger: Phasing out personal computing and supplanting it with increasingly "thin client"[1] hardware in combination with ad-supported subscription models (mobile phone hardware & software is more than halfway there already). Centralized compute infrastructure to mediate, surveil & censor not just all media/communication (of course unencrypted), but also to provide computation itself as limited resource only, executed centrally/remotely via subscription/quotas and monitored to ensure it cannot be used in unintended ways (or by unintended people/orgs). Very much like the recent wave of debanking hitting left-wing entities in Germany, only applied to computation itself...

Nothing of these developments are in any form in the interest of democratic societies!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnlgwyVahCY
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client

#AI #PersonalComputing

@toxi @aramba

Wow, I so love your essay, and what a tour de force it is: personal memoir, reflections on programming, reflections on education, a manifesto for creative programming ... simply wonderful.

#programming #PersonalComputing

The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/

#HackerNews #UsefulPersonalComputer #Technology #Innovation #PersonalComputing #TechHistory

Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own - Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new A... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-ai-features-aim-to-give-windows-a-voice-and-mind-of-its-own/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #personalcomputing #desktopcomputing #operatingsystems #softwareupdates #voicetechnology #userexperience #innovation #pchardware #microsoft #windows11

Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own - Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new A... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-ai-features-aim-to-give-windows-a-voice-and-mind-of-its-own/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #personalcomputing #desktopcomputing #operatingsystems #softwareupdates #voicetechnology #userexperience #innovation #pchardware #microsoft #windows11

Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own - Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new A... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-ai-features-aim-to-give-windows-a-voice-and-mind-of-its-own/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #personalcomputing #desktopcomputing #operatingsystems #softwareupdates #voicetechnology #userexperience #innovation #pchardware #microsoft #windows11

Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own - Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new A... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-ai-features-aim-to-give-windows-a-voice-and-mind-of-its-own/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #personalcomputing #desktopcomputing #operatingsystems #softwareupdates #voicetechnology #userexperience #innovation #pchardware #microsoft #windows11

Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own - Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new A... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-new-ai-features-aim-to-give-windows-a-voice-and-mind-of-its-own/ #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformation #personalcomputing #desktopcomputing #operatingsystems #softwareupdates #voicetechnology #userexperience #innovation #pchardware #microsoft #windows11

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control
https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/
#MyVoice #AIPrivacy #DataTracking #DesktopComputing #DigitalSovereignty #GamingOnLinux #Linux #LinuxDistros #macOS #MacOSVsLinux #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #OperatingSystems #PersonalComputing #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #TechFreedom #Ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #Windows11 #WindowsVsLinux

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control

https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/

#MyVoice #AIPrivacy #DataTracking #DesktopComputing #DigitalSovereignty #GamingOnLinux #Linux #LinuxDistros #macOS #MacOSVsLinux #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #OperatingSystems #PersonalComputing #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #TechFreedom #Ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #Windows11 #WindowsVsLinux

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control
https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/
#MyVoice #AIPrivacy #DataTracking #DesktopComputing #DigitalSovereignty #GamingOnLinux #Linux #LinuxDistros #macOS #MacOSVsLinux #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #OperatingSystems #PersonalComputing #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #TechFreedom #Ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #Windows11 #WindowsVsLinux

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control
https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/
#MyVoice #AIPrivacy #DataTracking #DesktopComputing #DigitalSovereignty #GamingOnLinux #Linux #LinuxDistros #macOS #MacOSVsLinux #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #OperatingSystems #PersonalComputing #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #TechFreedom #Ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #Windows11 #WindowsVsLinux

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control
https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/
#MyVoice #AIPrivacy #DataTracking #DesktopComputing #DigitalSovereignty #GamingOnLinux #Linux #LinuxDistros #macOS #MacOSVsLinux #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #OperatingSystems #PersonalComputing #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #TechFreedom #Ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #Windows11 #WindowsVsLinux

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control

https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/

Why I Moved to Linux: My Journey to Privacy, Freedom, and Control

https://beitmenotyou.online/why-i-moved-to-linux-my-journey-to-privacy-freedom-and-control/

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:

“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how computer platforms run today.

Gary viewed computers as learning tools rather than profit engines. His career choices reflect a different definition of success, where innovation means sharing ideas, letting passion drive your work and making source code available for others to build upon. His work ethic during the 1970s resembles that of the open-source community today."

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/

#ComputerHistory #CPM #PersonalComputing #RetroComputing

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/

@netizenparty Welcome. I think today we're expected to live in an Internet culture, but the level of education about how the Internet works is virtually nonexistent for non-technical audiences.

Imagine a city of netizens who can't read street signs, and who allow themselves to be (mis)directed by any colorful display or printed map that floats by. The people who are maintaining this city have arrived at the idea that they installed the street signs (of course) for their own use; instructing netizens to check them is frowned upon. If you require the security of verifying who/which address you're actually traveling to, you're given the advice to "avoid all web links and use apps from the app store instead".

Consider this... Some banks now require a verified app to access their services. That means you cannot use a PC or a libre mobile OS to access them. In other cases, users assume this must be the situation because they cannot imagine non-app access to a bank anymore, despite their bank offering web access (sometimes I check this). IMO, this is a major threat to the viability of the Internet. As cultures go, it appears to be one that has passed its heyday and is now in steep decline. The richest and arguably most powerful man in the world claims that in the near future his single app 'X' will be the preferred way to access all types of online services.

#collapse #internet #www #dns #https #phishing #apps #walledgarden #personalcomputing

The pendulum is swinging back toward the edge of the global connectivity mesh we call the #Internet—a familiar cycle, much like the shift from time-shared mainframes to the PC and Mac era.

Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM running on my MacBook Pro (M1), courtesy of LM Studio.

#GenAI #Trends #PersonalComputing #AppleIntelligence

I thought Brexit was a pretty dunderheaded self-own, but what's going on in the US is just orders of magnitude more stupid.

I've always thought that computers (#PersonalComputing, #ToolsForThought) should enable us to think better, to cooperate better, to communicate better. Instead the evidence seems to be that networking them together was a Bad Idea and has made us collectively more stupid than ever in human history. Or perhaps we were always that stupid, only now we have a light on it.

@Em0nM4stodon @smallcircles

You have little choice about using billionaires' platforms if the only terminal device you have also belongs to the billionaires.

You only have choice if your computing resources are under your own control, not Apple's or Microsoft's or Google's.

#personalComputing

And the page that triggered that thought: https://alexanderobenauer.com/think/1/

Well worth a read, even if you do have to fight past the FAT FONT.

#PersonalComputing

Further to yesterday's misadventures in Flatpak Land: The very notion of "sandboxing" "apps" in a desktop env seems to me exactly the *opposite* of the direction we want if we're to foster #PersonalComputing. A sandbox's purpose is to *prevent* software from interacting/interoperating with other bits of s/w, when what we *want* is many more much smaller components that interact promiscuously, fluidly and easily. (Yes, I know, bad actors/malware. Don't know how to solve that yet. Capabilities?)

@svoisen Sounds like they, too, are talking about the mostly-wasted opportunity for #PersonalComputing... https://one.mikro2nd.net/pages/personal-computing/

(And now, upon reading the thing, Yes! They're saying many of the same things as I. Thanks for a new discovery!)

Some pretty important, fundamental #computerHistory here

#Xerox #Alto #Ethernet #PARC #Adobe #Apple #computer #history #archives
#computerResearch #PersonalComputing
#graphicalInterface #mouse #stylus #portable #desktop

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

I have 7 personal data migration projects ongoing -- the biggest by far is Aperture to Photos.app but some Cloud migrations are big.

These migrations can take a long time to do well. They are inevitable -- sooner or later apps and services go away and the vast majority of consumers don't care about data migration solutions until it's too late.

Anyone else feel like data migration projects will be a significant part of their life going forward?

#datalock #personalcomputing
#timesuck

OTD #DouglasEngelbart gave “the mother of all demos” at the Fall *1968* ACM/#IEEEconference in #SanFrancisco. 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

The 90 minute presentation introduced the essential elements - both software and hardware - of #PersonalComputing 🖥️ still in use today!

#Introduction

Golden Geek + interoperability maven. First line of code compiled then crashed the computer: May 1958

#CollaborativeSystems
#democracy
#DocumentEngineering
#GoldenGeek
#interoperability
#MathematicalLogic
#MiserProject
#nfoTools
#PersonalComputing
#photography
#SoftwareEngineering