Clive Thompson on Nostr: Ed Zitron went to Amazon and bought it’s best-selling laptop — a $238 machine ...
Ed Zitron went to Amazon and bought it’s best-selling laptop — a $238 machine running Microsoft S, a hobbled version designed to limit what a user can do
The laptop is janky, slow, awful — and the internet it offers a portal to is a shitshow of upselling, slop, smd con schemes, where the walled gardens are preferable mostly because they offer an illusion of order
His point: for *most* people, computing is psychologically abusive
He’s right
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ 
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