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It looks like we're nearing the end of the personal computing era. Looks like they will get their way. Whether we're regulated out or priced out, it doesn't matter, the result is the same.

Profoundly sad.

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The only way to a sure loss is to not fight.

Keep on fighting.

I've been yelling at the top of my lungs since I was a kid and the clipper chip was floated. I even had a commentary published in FidoNews about it, though I was like 15 and it was fairly incoherent. I don't know that anyone really is listening to me, but I'm with you. I tell myself that every time I spend 5 minutes haranguing to someone about the dangers of "trusted computing" (for lack of a better term) I haven't yet harangued to might buy us all one more voice in this obnoxious ceaseless war.

Yeah. Until the end.

I had much better access to personal computing as a teenager with multiple clunky desktops, that I do today I feel.

That seems like a weird claim to me. What did you have then that you don't have now?

Is it because you're using an OS like Windows or Mac that are very closed and don't encourage hacking? There's an easy solution to that.

(Note that I'm not taking about things like the age verification laws, which haven't had a meaningful effect anywhere yet.)

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