Smartphones at least are absolutely crippled by being locked down by user-hostile app stores and rent schemes. Instead of uplifting us, they've made us angry cr

Smartphones at least are absolutely crippled by being locked down by user-hostile app stores and rent schemes. Instead of uplifting us, they've made us angry crackheads. I think the valley is a risk to humanity's survival at this point. LLMs and electric cars simply have zero impact on my life, and I imagine that other people would have had few issues coming up with the latter.