It's fine to be a consumer, I have no issue with that. But as someone who got into computing because of what computers are, I lament the conflation of "computer

It's fine to be a consumer, I have no issue with that. But as someone who got into computing because of what computers are, I lament the conflation of "computer" with "appliance" that leads to more and more restriction and less actual computers. I'd like to see computers improve as computers, but even Linux Desktop with all its hackers trends more towards wanting to be a fucking appliance.