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It's not that you won't be able to have a general purpose computer, it's that nothing that touches valuable services will be accessible to it. You can run your

It's not that you won't be able to have a general purpose computer, it's that nothing that touches valuable services will be accessible to it. You can run your toy rpi hobby server, but you won't be able to buy goods, check your bank statements, file your taxes, buy your insurance, pay your rent, check your email or message your mom. Doing any of those things will require getting permission from the gatekeepers of those services, and your device won't get it if you have root. In the BEST case: the government heavily regulates what those gatekeepers can do. In the worst... they "convenience fee" away absolutely all surplus productivity so a very small group of people holding digital keys gets to be stunningly rich.

BizarreByte 3y ago
> it's that nothing that touches valuable services will be accessible to it. > Doing any of those things will require getting permission from the gatekeepers of those services I don't see how we aren't already at this point. I can be locked out of my banking tomorrow for any reason by the bank or government, banking apps won't run on rooted phones or even many browsers, I can be banned from email providers and I can't reasonably host my own as big providers won't accept messages from my server, etc. That's not even touching on how companies like CloudFlare are effectively already the gatekeepers of traffic to any service you would want to use. From my perspective the future you're scared of is here already and only getting worse.