Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
This is despicable, and it&#x27;s indicative of a trend I&#x27;ve been noticing over the years.  Personal computing used to be about user empowerment.  Today it seems to me that many tech companies treat their users as nothing more than either &quot;eyeballs&quot; to show ads to or as cows to be milked through vendor lock-in and subscription services.  Either way, I feel the user experience has degraded in recent years, and I feel we increasingly have less control over our computers.<p>Thankfully alternatives exist.  Linux and the BSDs keep evolving, Haiku and ReactOS continue to develop and may one day reach daily-driver status, there&#x27;s still a thriving market for building your own x86-64 PCs (I&#x27;ll be building a Ryzen 9 machine this weekend), and products like the Framework laptop, the PineBook, and the Librem laptop have me excited.  Hopefully these alternatives will continue to evolve and take root so that way there&#x27;s a formidable challenger to Big Tech.