This is cloud-era software philosophy. The device isn't yours. The software isn't yours. You are not a sovereign in your private space. It was a choice, made b

This is cloud-era software philosophy. The device isn't yours. The software isn't yours. You are not a sovereign in your private space. It was a choice, made by product designers and government regulators. They came from an ethos that had no respect for individual human dignity and self-determination. The good news, though, is that it's mostly the software layer we're interacting with. And software has become so very much easier and cheaper to build. And it is easier still to take software that's built already and make it yours (as long as it's open source). These things can all come together to end the cloud age, if we want them to. We can, right now, and individually, choose to use software that is ours. The chains that were real - that software required lots of people to build and proprietary formats were hard to interoperate with - are gone. We just have a learned helplessness problem from spending the last 15-20 years under those chains. Well, Baby steps I guess?