The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

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The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

@koen_hufkens that quote from the article affords far too much perspective to big tech companies... and if you look at what's happened in the free software world of GNOME UIs and things like that, it's clear it's more a (misguided) attempt to simplify things for the "benefit" of the user