> It is not a false dichotomy, it's called herd immunity. > If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it. Absolutely everything. There will be some "cool th

> It is not a false dichotomy, it's called herd immunity. > If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it. Absolutely everything. There will be some "cool thing you can do" that requires sideloading, like pirating games, and at that point every fucking teenager on the planet will be sideloading. At that point it's not the "weird minority usage"; it's the real API everyone uses. > This is exactly how you get a tragedy of the commons. > Your decisions do affect me, and I hold you in hostility for the same reason anti-vaxxers get held in hostility. I have had family members get hacked and have their drives ransomwared because they're on an insecure-by-default platform, and using the equivalent of root access is the default way to do anything (windows + run as admin). Those who consistently advocated for "libertarian computing" brought this tragedy on me by proxy. It doesn't matter how careful I am, and how disciplined I keep my own stuff — other people I care about exist and I cannot protect them from what SHOULD be harmless actions. I hate the logical end state that such a decision ends up at, as it demonizes the exploration of a device THAT YOU OWN. I SHOULD be able to learn how my devices work. I SHOULD be able to repair it by my own efforts. I SHOULDN'T have to rely on the manufacturer as the sole source for repairs & maintenance of something that I SHOULD OWN. Just like how you demonize that my stances on "libertarian computing" brought this tragedy onto you by proxy, your stances on walling off such access brought upon me the tragedy of the manufacturer being the ONLY WAY that I could fix something THAT I OWN. Your stances against self-repairability, *as a consequence of wanting such access walled off*, contributed to the unrepairability of modern appliances & the tech landfills that have ballooned from such a decision. > Network. Effects. MATTER. Yes, they do matter. Including yours. What's being signaled from your network is that you don't want repairability, even if you say otherwise.