Mayayana wrote:

> "Charlie Gibbs"  wrote
>
> | > The only hope for General-Purpose Computing is to make
> | > it somehow "cool". Otherwise there will soon be nothing
> | > but Specialty computers, all produced/owned by the tech
> | > giants, designed to only serve their purposes.
> |
> | Unfortunately, J. Random Luser is easily hypnotized by
> | shiny things.  I've heard this referred to as "trout
> | management": dangle something shiny with a hook in it
> | in front of them and they'll strike every time.
>
>   It's easy to express contempt for non-tech people,
> but it's mainly the techies who are hypnotized by video
> games. They're mainly the people who got suckered into
> "invitations" to gmail. They're the ones pushing the
> switch to Chrome, using their phones to pay for things,
> supporting unregulated exploitation of workers through
> Uber and Lyft, shopping via Amazon, buying crap food
> in unrecycled containers via GrubHub or DoorDash...
>    You might not be a Facebookie, but if you live by your
> phone then you're exploited by either Google or Apple...
> plus dataminers. And you're cultivating a lifestyle
> mediated by middlemen.
>

You are speaking from my heart, respect!

>   Why? Because tech hipsters thought it was "cool".
>   Lately there's talk of a COVID vaccine cert that will
> require a cellphone. Why do we now just assume that
> life happens on a cellphone? Instead of selling everyone
> a PC, how about putting down your phone.
>

applause!

>   There's no reason the general public needs to want
> to do programming, video editing, or other things done
> on computers. What they need is privacy law. It's just
> like everything else. You don't get safe food by teaching
> nutrition or safe cars by turning everyone into a mechanic.
> You get there with regulation, so that everyone doesn't
> need to be an expert.
>
>   On the bright side, Europe has been more advanced than
> the US on that score, and Biden seems to be hiring people
> who want to break up the tech monopolies. We might get

Not sure if you are right here.

> there. In the meantime, do you watch junk TV? Do you
> eat fast food or junk food, or drink sodas? Have you
> been suickered into buying designer water? Do you play video
> games while being over 16 years old? If so then look in the
> mirror to see your trout. There's no super-mind plotting
> control over you. There are just confused, power-hungry,
> driven people like Bezos and Gates and Jobs and Cook and
> Schmidt. And there are their markets. Same thing. You
> should regard it as a warning sign when you decide that
> somehow you're the only person who thinks for themselves.

As I can answer all these questions with, NO, I thank you that you make me
feel I am not the only one on this planet, who experience the same.

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