Don't get me wrong, modern technology is superior in many ways. The problem I'm picking on here is that of the conflict of interest between the users and the de

Don't get me wrong, modern technology is superior in many ways. The problem I'm picking on here is that of the conflict of interest between the users and the developers. And this is absolutely not helped by the proliferation of predatory code signing and governments always siding with corporations when people try to take matter into their own hands. The problem with modern technology is that many of its upsides are compensated by software developers. You know, "disks are big, networks are fast, memory is plentiful, you don't need to count CPU cycles in $year" kind of mentality. > Nowadays, my computers, smart phones and similar devices usually run for weeks, pretty much only rebooting for software updates. On my macbook, something is leaking memory. I'm suspecting the nvidia GPU driver. I have to reboot it every week or two or else it'll start freezing even while I'm typing something.