Comment by aleph_minus_one
1 month ago
> We've ruined everything just like all other generations, specially programmers.
Rather: programmers did warn very vehemently of the situation (and were particularly worried that with the release of the iPhone people accepted the golden cage). The problem was rather that people did not listen to these "nerds" (or at least did not act on their strong recommendations), but rather listened to "hipsters" and marketers.
The war isn't over tho.
Warning people is the domain of influences, hipsters, propagandists and marketeers. Programmers cant really compete there but money does talk in the domain. Our world is such that if we want something we have to pay for it.
What we can do however is write code. Solving it in code makes the problem orders of magnitude more complicated to solve but [say] an Iphone is now merely a decent camera with great software enhancement. When I switched to Android, transferring the apps and data worked gloriously. While it might not be real progress the new HarmonyOS is still running most android apps.
Every year or so I realize I was conditioned to accept something obviously absurd if only superficially examined. (which I didn't do up to that point)
The warnings might not have the desired effect, it is hard to unsee the obvious so they do contribute.
Keep fighting!