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> Yes, but it's not about individual interests. On my devices it sure as heck is about my individual interests. I do not like authoritarianism in politics or

• coldtea 10y ago
  >On my devices it sure as heck is about my individual interests. And you're always free to individually buy something else. >I hate that a generation is being raised without the freedom to tinker, to own their hardware and to own their data. You mean the same generation that has all kinds of compilers and developers tools for free (unlike back in the 80s and 90s), can reach the whole globe with a simple $5/month server app, and has hardware platforms like Arduino and Pi for less than $100 backs? I lived in the 80s. We didn't tinker on our smartphones because we didn't have any. Now we have something like 10,000 PDP-11s on our pockets, and an environment so accessible that there are 1,500,000 apps for it. And if we don't like forking $100 to the gatekeeper to get to publish apps for it, there are also web-apps, and Android, where we can just publish anything.