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   phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 18:05:52 JST phiofx

   There is personal computing and home (family) networks,

   then there is corporate and public sector institutional "on-prem" team oriented computing and intranets

   and finally there is nowadays #bigtech "public #cloud computing (renting somebody else's #linux)

   What never became a thing is community level computing: Sharing computational and network resources at, say an appartment complex or neighborhood or even municipality level.

   Why not?

   #digitalcommons
   #opensource

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     Paragone (paragone@hear-me.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 19:06:56 JST Paragone

     in reply to

     @phiofx

     * Lack of initiative,
     * Lack of pervasive-competence,
     * Lack of funds/resources,
     AND...
     * suppression of the potential by the for-profit parasites who would lose money if that were allowed.

     Take a quick look at how much Quickbooks has invested in *preventing* people from being able to file taxes for free...

     Same same, every domain...

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     mkj (mkj@social.mkj.earth)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:06:48 JST mkj

     in reply to

     @phiofx Lack of know-how? Lack of a use case?

     Or alternatively, it actually does exist. I get fiber to the home through a community organization joining together almost 1000 households (so low thousands people or so) in the area; but of course much of the actual management of that is outsourced. Not computing, but definitely networking.

     I think your one in 100 is overly optimistic, and frankly it takes somewhat more than "basic Linux administration" to run something for serious use by others.