I see zero interest or even hope in where we've headed. There's been a serious failure to start the alternatives. And I think there's a lot of good reasons. Bu

I see zero interest or even hope in where we've headed. There's been a serious failure to start the alternatives. And I think there's a lot of good reasons. But the status quo of fewer & fewer & fewer being reasonably cross-proficient at computing, and the world delegating all work to them? It's fucking busted as fuck. It's janky broken down out of control shit that no one anywhere likes. We'll marshal up eventually. Some folks will figure out how to care with effectiveness. I don't care what you think the indicators are. You're right but it doesn't matter. It's dead fucking obvious to me that the pendulum will swing back at some point, that people will re-personalize computing, and that this time, we'll have a bit more ambition in our personal computing & want to project our powers wide & far, not just within the single-system domain. We will beget a new, communicative way of doing things for ourselves. Because the current way fucking sucks. It's infinitely limiting. Some day it'll be clear doing for ourselves is the only possible conceivable way, that it's enriching & not limiting, and that the paid for alternatives all suck & are limited. Not to mention monitored by every government via dragnet surveillance & sold as marketing data. Figuring out how to get ourselves online (or interconnecting offline or semi-online) isn't easy, and everyone hates on the ambition, the possibility of better, but some day a new cool will emerge, a new train of being powerful, cool, interesting geeks, and it's not with any of the shitty awful anti-humanity big cloudtech crap we endure. Computing will rise again, out of the ashes of this crap.