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The tech industry spent twenty years turning users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded.

New post: The Slow Death of the Power User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

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The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

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Marek Macko

@fireborn Sad but true.
On the other hand, as I grow older, convenience becomes more and more important to me. I don't want to root phones, install custom ROMs, or tweak everything to death all day long like I did 10 years ago. Now, I just want things to work reliably enough so that I don't have to fix stuff for me, my less tech-savvy friends and relatives after work.