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> Boy do I miss the good old days, where devices were programmable by their owners instead of just e-waste consumption slabs.

Wow, this quote really hits the nail on the head.

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"e-waste consumption slabs" really does a disservice to all of the art that has been created with these devices (visual, auditory, textual), all of the communities that have been built by information sharing and network effects, education that has come from looking up anything at any time, and the exploration that apps like Maps, Weather, Translate, etc encourage and enable.

"I can't compile from a command line, so this is e-waste and only used for consumption." - give me a break.

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