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Windows S announcement and a new Amiga X ... let me drag up this http://drupal4hu.com/future/freedom http://drupal4hu.com/future/freedom seven year old blog pos
by chx 9y ago
Windows S announcement and a new Amiga X ... let me drag up this http://drupal4hu.com/future/freedom http://drupal4hu.com/future/freedom seven year old blog post of mine. Especially because:
> Microsoft can [...] make it so that any new app needs to be sanctioned.
which came to be true with Windows S.
The other half of my prediction where free PCs become "cool, obscure and expensive" computers like the Amiga X series has not yet come to pass. Not yet.
- alxmdev 9y agoThat's a nice post, thanks for the link. Some may point to various coding apps available in walled gardens, but that means allowing 3rd parties to define what the general-purpose computer is and set its limits. Who are they to say where curiosity begins and where it should end? I want the freedom to run native code on the CPU, and the freedom for others to easily run what I make without jumping through any hoops. I'd like to hear your opinions about the Raspberry Pi and other cheap computer boards where you can load Linux and just plug in a keyboard and screen. I see a future iteration of that as my next PC in a few years. The Raspberry Pi 3 is good enough to run Ubuntu MATE (I was blown away), and if it had more than 1GB of RAM I would start using it full-time today and save myself some money on the power bill while I'm at it :-)
- chx 9y agoWant to hear the doom and gloom version? All it takes is one of these to be found in a terrorist backpack and they will be banned. Consider that 16 years ago one guy tried to smuggle a bomb in his shoe and to this day hundreds of millions of passengers take off their shoes in answer.