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Comment by thirdsun

2 years ago

> What a great story. I wonder at what stage of Idiocracy lore we’re at, to require locked down software to “protect” people from “smart nephews”.

Have you ever had to do tech support for non-technical users? People will make poor tech choices and fault the manufacturer for it.

Yes, I did.

It never crossed my mind to reduce literal supercomputer that costs 1,5k euro, and can fit into my pocket, to a feature phone.