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It's a shame to see our beautiful gardens all walled up

• fennecfoxy 3y ago
  It's more convenience actually. The same path that took us away from interacting with our computers purely via a terminal connected to a mainframe. The cycle of grumpy old men will go on, gen Z will fondly remember the tech of their day and think that later gens are lazy/too trusting for letting AGI manage their lives.
• Arrath 3y ago
  It's not so much (or just) walled gardens, its the hiding of the more fundamental layers of the system from the user. A user doesn't navigate through the file system to a folder where they've saved a bunch of notes in discrete text files of some format or another, they start up a notekeeping app and use its interface to open their notes. Where are these notes saved? That is either hard to find in the bowels of the settings of the app, or entirely hidden and they're saved in a database accessible only to that specific app.
  • cratermoon 3y ago
    > saved in a database accessible only to that specific app Or worse, on some disk “in the cloud" rented by the app maker, subject to subscription fees and the stability of the company.