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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:14PM (#27348617)
The (graphical) software program with guaranteed internet connectivity has become a control vector for the software author, many times the company employing the software author, over the user. Users are being "used", as suggested by the original author of GCC.

For whatever reasons, non-graphical software seems to suffer less from this problem.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by OkayPhysicist on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:46PM (#27348920)
Non-graphical software is almost exclusively used by people who are extremely tech literate.

Forfeiting control of a system doesn't really bite as hard when you didn't understand the system enough to control it much anyway.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by marrs on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:57PM (#27349020)
It used to be used by people who were moderately to hardly tech literate.

Not sure if that’s relevant but it feels like it should be

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