• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because it’s just unnecessary. Due to their nature, you want a few services reachable from anywhere, anyways. There’s no reason for the average consumer to acquire hardware for this purpose. Just rent the service or the hardware elsewhere, which also reduces upfront cost which is ideal in situations where you cannot know whether you’ll stick with the service.

      Again, it’s either extreme that’s absurd. You don’t need your own video streaming platform for example. In rare cases, sure. For the vast majority of people, Netflix is a much service however.

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        1 year ago

        hard disagree on that one, the opposite is true. we end up with companies centralizing it on huge datacenters and not even being able to profit from it (services like youtube are unprofitable). best solution would be a federated service. I digress though because video platforms are a completely different beast.

        something as personal like ai assistants should utilize the processing power i already have available, wasteful not to.

        also its a BAD idea to hand out data for something so personal to google yet again. lets not keep repeating that mistake if we can avoid it.