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  • A decent percentage of Gen X and early millennials grew up familiar with computers. You kind of had to be, to some extent. Stuff didn’t always work smoothly or easily, so some tinkering and understanding of how things work beneath the surface was required.

    We’re moving towards a future where a computer becomes just like an appliance, like a TV. Both the hardware and software will be locked down and set up to work. You just tap and press buttons to get it to do its thing.

    Eventually, we may even get to the point where computers are required to be locked down “for our safety”.

    If we get that far, then I can imagine those who want to build their own and have full freedom to install and customise it any way they want could be considered the very fringe/fanatical elements of society.

    “Hey, you want an illegal unauthorised computer, why on earth would you need that, are you a terrorist or criminal or something?”

    I hope things don’t go quite that far. But I don’t think it’s out of the question.



  • MusketeerX@lemm.eetoAndroid@lemmy.worldWill you pay for satellite features?
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    3 months ago

    No way. Coverage on my carrier is solid everywhere I’ve been - even in the middle of a national park a couple of hours outside the city recently.

    I like to get away, but I’m not the type to want to go to extremely remote places, hours from the nearest town in the middle of the desert or anything like that. So this is useless to me.

    I’ll accept it if it’s free, otherwise you can keep it.







  • I’ve never had a Facebook account, I’ve never had an insta account, but I do use WhatsApp.

    Pretty much everyone I know whether old or young uses WhatsApp. When I was travelling, a lot of apartments, hotels and booking services used it too.

    Seems to be the one messaging app that cuts across all generations, countries and also the Android/IOS divide.


  • This is so true.

    For 10 years (2011 to 2021) I carried both an Android phone (personal) and an iPhone (work provided). Both phones were updated about every 2 years.

    Over those years I’ve watched IOS get closer and closer to Android. The funny thing is Android has also been creeping towards IOS in some areas, though that is to a lesser extent than the other way around.

    In recent years they’ve gotten pretty close to each other in basic functionality.

    I still prefer Android, but IOS is much less annoying to use than it was a decade ago.