This exactly. I read the essay and said to myself “meh”. Having a phone that I can’t mess up is actually pretty dang nice. High performance computing is defini

This exactly. I read the essay and said to myself “meh”. Having a phone that I can’t mess up is actually pretty dang nice. High performance computing is definitely locked down. An M1 Mac is pretty dang nice. But for general purpose computing you don’t need those fancy graphics. I’ve been thinking of microcontrollers as the equivalent of our 1980s general purpose computers more so than the rpi. The rpi still requires a lot of software. An mcu just works. And we can create a nice little gpu for it with an fpga. Big corporations aren’t locking you out of this world. They are actually helping you get this awesome stuff for pennies as a consequence of the massive supply chain.