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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It’s this and it’s not. Chromebooks don’t give kids anywhere to explore outside of chrome and handheld devices provide a controlled environment. A lot of kids (and adults!) are operating with a tablet in place of a computer because the most intensive thing they need to do if they’re not gaming is word processing. It’s big tech overall and the internet shrinking down into like 3 companies.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    As someone who lives and works online. I wish.

    It seems super consolidated, right up until you start listing the "handful" of big vendors that run the Internet..... You get passed the first 3 or 4 big players and end up with a long list of "of yeah, these guys too"....

    Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, CloudFlare, valve (and every other game publisher), Netflix, PayPal, Uber, Spotify, Apple, Yahoo (yes, they still exist), xitter, Rackspace, zoom, Dropbox, Etsy, Pinterest.....

    The list is super long.

    And that's just companies that people would have heard of. The companies that actually make the Internet work is a much longer list, and GoDaddy plays a surprisingly large role as well. There's also entire business sectors that most people aren't aware of, for network transit services, and interconnects.

    It's a pretty deep topic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I completely agree. I think people mean more like in the scope of basic tasks kids aren’t meant to be doing on computers in school. That’s been basically wrangled into Google and Amazon at this point with a handful outlying things. If you’re doing anything else though, the scope definitely broadens, and you can make it broaden more if you try to eliminate the bigger guys.

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