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What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine? (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from a friend? Pop it in. Shareware demo downloaded from a BBS? Go ahead! Dodgy code you wrote yourself at 2 AM? Absolutely. The computer you bought was yours. It would run whatever you told it to run, and ask no questions.

Today, that freedom is dying. What’s worse, is it’s happening so gradually that most people haven’t noticed we’re already halfway into the coffin.

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[–] Corbin@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look, just because you don't click bluelinks doesn't imply that anybody using them is a bot. Sometimes Wikipedia really does have useful information. If you don't want to get talked to in a condescending manner, don't reply to top-level posts with JAQs or sealions.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What? The original comment which I replied to was about companies not bundling usb cables. Explain how it is relevant to OP?

Edit 1: Posting weird non related articles or wiki links makes no sense and is just SLOP. Whether it's AI generated or not.

Edit 2: The links might have good info I am not debating that. Just that I don't see a connection with the topic.