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> Any device you cannot program yourself is a toy. That has to be one of the dumbest of dumb takes. A car is a toy. A fridge is a toy. A spaceship is a toy.
by Razengan 3y ago
> Any device you cannot program yourself is a toy.
That has to be one of the dumbest of dumb takes.
A car is a toy. A fridge is a toy. A spaceship is a toy.
(Hint: Those are all controlled by predefined knobs and bits and not ""programmable"" by the user. If your argument is that you can rip open a car and do whatever you want with it, well, nothing's really stopping you from doing the same to an iPad or iPadOS, if you can figure out how to do it.)
- Zetobal 3y agoEven some toys are toys.
- vundercind 3y agoIt's a common POV on this site and I don't get it at all. All I can figure is there are a bunch of folks who think the only useful thing you can do with computers is make software for computers, so if a computer's anything less than excellent for that specific purpose, it's just a toy. Meanwhile everything important in my actual life that involves a computer takes place on my phone (an iPhone, the greatest bogey-man for that crowd, as far as I can tell) or on some purpose-specific device of one sort or another. Zero percent of it happens on a "real" computer—their role in my personal life is entirely toy-like.