r/pcmasterrace • u/FreeHugs23 • Aug 20 '26

News/Article FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies | FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be “technologically neutral.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/
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u/Meatslinger R7 9800X3D, 64 GB DDR5, RTX 4070 Ti Aug 20 '26

I wonder if they know that the future their corporate puppeteers want, in which all of your computing is done in massive data centres with their tokens leased out on a subscription model, only works if people actually have fast, consistent access to these services. Nobody is going to be virtualizing games on remote servers if they can't get more than a flaky 1-10 Mbps connection for the stream with 300 ms of round-trip input lag.

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u/KidCoheed Ascending Peasant Aug 20 '26

It's a paradox, they need us using AI but are too cheap to spend on the infrastructure to do it because the party in power is too intent on robbing every cent available

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u/Meatslinger R7 9800X3D, 64 GB DDR5, RTX 4070 Ti Aug 20 '26

Thieves stealing from thieves. It's like a burglar showing up to loot your house only to see the guy before him already slipping out a back window.

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u/Zanithos Ryzen 9800X3D/X870 TUF/32GB@6000MT/9070XT Aug 20 '26

The AI isn't for us.

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u/KidCoheed Ascending Peasant Aug 20 '26

They desperately need users, even corporate users aren't enough, they have even said they desperately need us to buy in as well, to buy tokens and blow threw them Weekly and monthly

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u/Zanithos Ryzen 9800X3D/X870 TUF/32GB@6000MT/9070XT Aug 20 '26

That's news to me then. As far as I'm aware they've just been circle jerking each other to the tune of billions of dollars in IOUs with no actual profit generated yet, and because no one is going to hold them to it, they'll continue to do so in perpetuity.

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u/KidCoheed Ascending Peasant Aug 20 '26

The need for fresh money is here they need to show some kind of profit of ability eventually make profit... So far for the Trillions spent they're only making less than 50 billion from outside forces... It's just not enough to rug pull if you leave with 100th of what you've poured in. AI Companies NEED Users and Paying Users at That. Corporate American is slowly passing, takes Millions of Dollars in Tokens a Day to do what their previous work forces did at a 10th of the price, Other than the US Government, most Nations aren't going all in on AI Plans so they aren't likely to get a global bailout. Trump is also 2 years in and already looking like a lame duck so he won't be able to bail Them out. The hope is now regular users get addicted bankrupt the US completely with a Bailout and pop up in the EU while using the newly broke North America as farm, much like the Northern Hemisphere did to the Global South for Centuries

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u/Zanithos Ryzen 9800X3D/X870 TUF/32GB@6000MT/9070XT Aug 20 '26

The future won't have games, at least outside of shitty mobile ones that we can play for an allotted 15-30 minutes a day where it costs money to do literally anything, if we're even allowed that. They want us to be working constantly and barely making enough to survive, so that we won't be able to organize and rise up against this bullshit.