Jeremy Soller 🦀There has never been a time in my life when I have been less enthused to be a programmer than now.
TornaxO7@TornaxO7 AI, government overreach, undocumented hardware, death of the PC and rise of mobile devices, etc
Blue Luma@soller @TornaxO7 the death of PC and rise of mobile devices comes with something positive : less cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Major PC OS (Windows, MacOS and Linux) are so bad at security compared to mobile OS. I hope new players like @redox could come with security in mind (like capabilities) to reduce the huge attack surface traditional PC OS has.
Michael A. Murphy 
@blueluma Most phones and tablets only get a few Android updates, so the vast majority are left on older versions with security vulnerabilities. And even if the hardware is still perfectly fine, there's often not much choice but to upgrade to the next phone every couple years.
@mmstick indeed when released phones have at most ≈7 years of update, which is not much, but phones usually don't live that long too. Phones with few years of update should (and will in the EU) be illegal and people shouldn't buy them.
Also, phones are much less repairable, and because of the end of life at ≈7 year at most, spare parts cannot be used to keep repairing them as long as we could while keeping the security it offers
Also, phones are much less repairable, and because of the end of life at ≈7 year at most, spare parts cannot be used to keep repairing them as long as we could while keeping the security it offers