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🪙 The golden age of tech is coming to an end. We currently live in a world of tech built by engineers and great minds; both Windows and Linux are great in their own ways. PCs are the peak of engineering, both desktops and laptops because of how versatile, powerful and universal they are. They serve engineers, designers and end users. You can do anything you can imagine; because the great people who built it, did it in such way that they themselves could use and enjoy it.

📱 The tech of the future will become ever more limited. The next generation of humans will use Chrome OS gladly and not even feel limited because they never experienced the freedom provided by a true personal computer device. Android OS is already getting ever closer to restricting 3rd party APK installers. Big tech will do everything they can to limit freedoms and make everyone use cloud, where they can charge $ for every damn click.

☎️The consumer-facing tech will become increasingly dumbed-down over time. The programmers and engineers will be still able to use "true" tech, but only for work. In everyday life, they will have to be content with the dumb limited tech.

And there is nothing we can do to stop it.

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  • 5
    2y
    "because the great people who built it, did it in such a way that they themselves could use and enjoy it."

    I highly doubt that even nowadays, because in the end it's about profits.

    The only thing we can do is base our buying decisions onto things like versatility, repairability and stuff like that. Companies will follow, doesn't matter if they want it or not, because it's profits. Companies are not your friends.
  • 8
    2y
    "The next generation of humans will use Chrome OS gladly"

    well... the CURRENT generation of humans is using IOS gladly...
  • 2
    2y
    Not as long as any kind of OSS is a thing it wont.

    you can already see the current generation being more tech-savvy on average and noticing the bullshit that microsoft, android and apple put them through.

    As long as we keep suggesting better, OSS based alternatives to everything, people will keep leaving that socially-depraved shit. The scales will tip eventually as computer education gets better and better
  • 1
    2y
    This implies a demand for simplicity and compatibility-by-default at a cost of flexibility that will dwindle or even turn around as innovation slows down and IT education eventually catches up to the status quo.
  • 0
    2y
    You truly stole my words, sir.
  • 0
    2y
    "cloud, where they can charge $ for every damn click"

    Not only that, but they can lock you out whenever they feel like it.

    https://karl-voit.at/cloud
  • 0
    2y
    "And there is nothing we can do to stop it." - Something we could theoretically do is build our alternatives, but that would require lots of funding and enough people to participate.

    Most people won't care until it hurts.
  • 0
    2y
    Obligatory: https://youtube.com/watch/... – one of the most important videos. And its meaning is not just limited to Windows 11.
  • 0
    1y
    I fully agree.
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