I hear you, but I’ve started to wonder about what things are wrong intrinsically in digital tech, or at least that are hard to fight.

With a desktop computer that’s supposed to help you with everyday things, you’ve got to have an OS and software. I think that naturally leads to vendor lock in, but not just for replacement parts as it would be with a car but your personal information and artefacts.

I suspect it’s in the nature of building up a software stack that’s user friendly enough for mass consumption: there are just too many choices the developers need to make, and too many layers, and so too many opportunities a company has to make their software incompatible with someone else’s.

I suspect with desktop computing every day mental work was colonised by monopolies and monopolistic structures. Which then sent us down a problematic path which may very well strongly resemble cyber punk dystopias.

That big social media and then this AI surrender followed, is to me, not a coincidence at all.

There’s something funny about software that betrays its promise, a dangerous magic if you will.