we spent decades refining the model of “the computer gives the right answer” and I remain unconvinced people wish to replace this with “the computer gives the wrong answer, but in plausible-sounding words”
i do like how they are like fae. very powerful entities you can ask questions of who are just as likely to deceive you as help you and also you can bind them with cleverly worded requests to make them do something they don't 'want' to do
not sure what the state of the right to repair is but hopeing something comes of that movement. it is interesting to me how much of it is led by like ag workers and farming equipment and not tech consumers
same
(honestly the one thing I miss about my old slidephone compared to my smartphone... which I only replaced in like 2021/2022, was that I could replace the battery on it)
i bought one of the first gen touch screen macbooks that had both
1) slight dust makes the keyboard unusable problem
2) loose video cable making the screen look awful problem
like a $3000 laptop thats functionally useless as a laptop and also completely unrepairable
