This is bad but I miss the enthusiasm https://t.co/ao1yK0nHeY

— Jonathan Korman (@miniver) February 9, 2021

My partner and I were just discussing this the other day — reminiscing about when computers were trying to be more than bland consumption boxes.

Now that computers are a thousand times faster, we are told that everything must be completely locked down for “security,” even though computers (and here I include smartphones and tablets, etc.) are now so blazing fast we could more than easily have cutsomizability and security.

Of course everyone who is not a complete doofus knows the “security” excuse is just a lie to wrest control away from the user and give it to corporations, but most people are in fact doofuses so they are readily bamboozled by such simplistic sophistry.

We lost more than most people realize, and a lot of that history is being deliberately buried now and people who remember being gaslighted about it.