Feudal serf: without the master we would have nothing.
Reality: a really tiny, almost microscopic group of free software enthousiasts have brought forth at least a couple of the best OSes the world will ever have, one of those being more successful than all others combined (Linux). There is more to computing than the desktop (and mobile). You have been lied to and will be lied to forever until you stop being a serf. Hard pill to swallow but no, proprietary bullshit "products" build by slaves don't hold a candle to anything produced by a group of skilled and competent enthousiasts not driven (and distracted) by morally repulsive and objectively suboptimal incentives.
You are vastly understating the power they have over you and your devices. You are not a tenant, you are a serf and Apple is not your landlord, it is your master.
You have reliquinshed all control, for what, exactly? Getting directions to the bakery and being able to talk to your phone like 10yo. Yey, I guess?
You'll have a blast paying thousands of dollars for rented, ad-laden, subpar machines with 90s performance that monitor every move you make. I, for one, welcome our various overlords. May we be instruments in their capable hands. May our thoughts be forever monitored and watched for vigilance is of the utmost importance.
That's just having access to the right resources (school and.. time and lack of obstacles) as I'm sure you did not just pull Gauss summation out of thin air.
Stuff like this is useless for families. See his schedule. 7-830AM, time for "journaling"? Laughable. Try:
0600-0800 handling a bunch of small, very active and loud kids while doing laundry, kitchen, making breakfast, preparing lunch, dealing with constant messes, clothes.
0900-1200: deep (?) work, while constantly knowing you need to do like 12 baskets of laundry.
1200-1215: "lunch"
1215-1300: dealing with issue at school and sick family members.
3PM: "jimmy" comes over and poops his pants, sticks hands in poop and draws on walls.
1700: everybody is home again and the madness only now begins in earnest.
2000: "me"-time.
2100: winding down and preparing next day.
2200-0600: catch like 6 hours of sleep becayse of screaming baby, pissed pants, nightmares, whatever. All at once sometimes.
All these groups you mention would collapse into uselessness the second SE pulls back, with perhaps philosophers and maybe artists holding out for a while. Without computation these fields are now worthless. They used to function without SE of course, back when the fruits were plentiful and low-hanging but the times have changed. So.. yeah..
Agreed. This is the way of the future. Is there a subscription model? I'd like myself a CPU-as-a-service. $50-100 a month seems reasonable.
Using these "efficiently repurposable" building blocks we can even create new software! Ultimate composability. I'll rent you a couple of instructions and you can create whatever turing-completeness your heart desires for the low, low cost of $0.01 per instruction. (I will have to send all your data to our headquarters in Russia and China, but only occasionally.)
Did anyone patent this already? Time to jump on this.
Why is there even a paragraph? It's weird. Like mentioning naked mole rats. Sure, it's only one paragraph and I have nothing against naked mole rats in particular but what's the point?
What are you protecting? Your genius-level decorating insights which are so incomprehensibly deep their discovery should be guarded with your life but could inexplicably be copied by a total n00b in 5 minutes?
They don't need to "step up their game", they are plenty efficient at minmaxing the economic game. If anything the government and thus the people need to step up their game to change the incentives.
Reality: a really tiny, almost microscopic group of free software enthousiasts have brought forth at least a couple of the best OSes the world will ever have, one of those being more successful than all others combined (Linux). There is more to computing than the desktop (and mobile). You have been lied to and will be lied to forever until you stop being a serf. Hard pill to swallow but no, proprietary bullshit "products" build by slaves don't hold a candle to anything produced by a group of skilled and competent enthousiasts not driven (and distracted) by morally repulsive and objectively suboptimal incentives.