Its 2050, local drives are outlawed. All devices have no writable storage and only a read only memory containing the basic os needed to connect to "the cloud". In order to use your device, you need to pay a monthly subscription, to save your files, you need to pay a even higher subscription depending on your storage desires. If your cloud account has "undesirable" content, it is removed from your account without warning. If you stop paying your subscription, all data is immediately removed. All content you want to see is temporarily loaded to ram and is purged after you consume it. Ads require detection of your eyes looking at the display to progress. Biometric verification is required to use your device and any given device is tied to a person's identity, can only be used by that person, and must be surrendered when no longer wanted. Welcome to the future!

[–] jeremyspitz@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You took the words out of my mouth, lol.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly sad reading this because there's an actual very real chance some of these come true, and probably way before 2050 lol.

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Of course, no local encryption of data. The Cloud will keep all your data safe for you!

[–] ToastyBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Literally 1984

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I have made a decentralized storage protocol, and an implementation for it, anyone interested in checking it out?

I'm terrible at promoting things, but it's FOSS and encrypted and quite takedown safe.

You can publish a website with it for example (update it as you like), or build a chat app onto it (I have an example), people with the "link" file can access it, nobody else can.

Hopefully a first step in sharing information freely.

Cheers

Valmond

[–] anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Prob overshot the date by about 25 years.