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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Locked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It's dystopian.

Let alone where are tomorrow's developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.

I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it's on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I've monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.