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>>kotaKa+(OP)
Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own.

Will once again re-up the concept of a “right to root access”, to prevent big corps from pulling this bs over and over again: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access

>>medhir+Lg1
> Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own.

I’ve never agreed with this premise.

I buy things that mostly meet my needs and desires in every other walk of life. I’m personally OK with extending this to computers as well.

>>paulco+5k1
That doesn't make sense. How do meet your own needs and desires if you can't use your own property the way you want?

And isn't the point in this very situation that people simply can't buy what they want because Google and Apple are a duopoly and now Google is going to follow the path of restricting what you can do with your own property?

>>garcia+fl1
> How do meet your own needs and desires if you can't use your own property the way you want?

My needs and desires aren’t that complicated. There’s nothing that I really want or need to do that I can’t do on my phone or iPad.

>>paulco+v72
The logic here seems to be "I don't care about freedom because my jail cell is large enough." What if you wake up one day and it isn't?

Your response reminds me of Snowden's quote, which I'll likely butcher because it's from memory, but roughly: "Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say".