How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing
The problem is people. Computing wasn&#x27;t for everyone until it was. Half of all people are below average. A good chunk of people are just wandering through life and can&#x27;t causally connect where they are right now to where they were when they woke up this morning.<p>The answer is to not use what they use. If you don&#x27;t like what&#x27;s made for them, what&#x27;s made for them is not for you. Don&#x27;t use it.<p>Android is a kiosk. iOS is a kiosk. Windows is a kiosk. These are not operating systems, they don&#x27;t enable you to operate your property, they enable you to use services. They&#x27;re kiosks.<p>(Side note: You can pry a little more functionality out of AOSP, but not all the functionality your hardware can deliver. I use it, but it&#x27;s still a kiosk.)<p>Facebook and twitter are analogous to cable TV, people that use them are modern day couch potatoes. These people existed before them, the products and services they wasted their lives consuming were just different. You don&#x27;t have to partake.<p>There are options. They just take a little bit work, because of course they do. That&#x27;s half the point. The unwashed masses are lazy, you&#x27;re not. Are you? Or are you flipping through channels while complaining that there&#x27;s nothing good on?