Tech

Thanks for explaining. It's a bit tricky if you invent words without explaining them at the same time.

You're right. I'm used to read stupid takes here on Lemmy, so I mainly ignored those. It is like you said. People are moving more towards mobile devices where they're not in control of anything. They're mostly walled gardens. You don't get administrator privileges, Google or whoever is making those choices for you. And they're so easy to use, you don't even learn anything about the internet and their inner workings. It's all a service and content magically appears on your screen. All of that is a step down from where we've been before.

I struggle to recommend Microsoft instead. While it's still a computer and that definitely changes things, they're headed in exactly the same direction. Everything is set on spying per default these days, and they also try to lure you in into their walled gardens, paid services instead if owning software or disk space... It's not the same level. But not good either.

Ideally we don't want any of them to be in control of our platforms and devices, but have some control ourselves. With smartphones that's next to impossible. With windows you might be able to pull it off if you put in some effort, since it's not the default experience. Given it's something that can be changed.