RE: https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/116330768332281834
"• We use computers to enhance our minds, lives, and abilities—not to be controlled, restricted, tricked, placated, angered, or surveilled.
• Our computers work for us, with the utmost respect for our time, attention, money, data, and privacy.
• We are customers and owners—not resources to be harvested, annoyed, or badgered into ever more services and upsells."
I hope Ternus reads this. But more, I hope he *gets* it.
I just keep reading this. Those bullet points feel like a sort of bill of rights for computer users.
And they crystallize, like little else I've read recently, how absolutely bad things have gotten.
@mlabowicz I've been thinking a lot about Linux lately. What's kept me on Apple stuff is (1) the design/UX; (2) the reliability; and (3) the ecosystem. I like having devices that look good and work well with each other.
I don't want to switch. I've used Apple stuff for 40 years. But I've used it that long for reasons that go a lot deeper than blind loyalty, and those reasons—quality, trust, respect for the company—are looking more questionable with every glitch, barrier, and popup.
Reads like the script Microsoft uses to do exactly the opposite.
Chris Silverman 🌻
Michael Labowicz
JuanjoSan
Albert Cardona