Neil Brown19h ago
The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
Show threadHedders19h ago
@neil I do worry that we're seeing the beginning of the end of personal computing, in the sense of being able to own a machine that you control and that does your bidding.
Show threadMarcus The Board Gamer15h ago
@hedders @neil You’ll have a dumb terminal that you pay a subscription for. All this terminal does is connect you to approved services from Google/Amazon/Microsoft. That subscription will go up in price as actual computers die out. The service will get worse over time.
Show threadGary 
@lordsplodge @hedders @neil Cory Doctorow (yeah, I know…) kind of touched on this in Little Brother. All the kids had these totally locked-down games consoles that were given away free as loss-leaders for the online game companies. But they were powerful bits of kit, and the hacker kids just jailbroke them to run their own software.
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