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Maybe you were a kid then, but selling home PCs back in the 80s and 90s was derided by adults as a cash grab.

They were business tools! Omgurd! You’re just trying to get kids addicted to media!

It’s pretty fascinating being older and watching these arguments repeat themselves.

In case you haven’t noticed, political life is all about ownership. You’re sold disposable garbage on a cadence by people that own the machines that make it.

Your agency was sold to suppliers. Computing as a system of doing has matured.

It’ll be awful just like that car dystopia where no one changes their oil, and the recycling is handled in an organized way.

Your way of thinking is the problem. You’re a minority of users and not entitled to mass production of goods that fit your intentions alone.

Reality moved on as physics obliges it to do.

Go buy a Dell and install Linux. Go buy an Rpi. When did MS or Apple ever cater to open source opinions on computing?

Did a golden age end or were you all distracted and simply forgot these companies were awful back then too?

Better juice those stocks gains though!

Congrats, you’ve come to understand a free commodities market doesn’t curate itself to one generation forever.

It’s hardware that does the real work. The software fetish of tricking a limited machine into variety is now full of variety by default as the hardware is much less limited.

No matter the language it’s physics.

Unix is still there. You’re acting entitled to have others sell only what you want.

Just like an old person. Let’s bring back pagan gods and horse and buggy, too, eh? There’s freedoms being trampled somewhere because those aren’t being fetishized at scale.

It’s the arithmetic of a society.