<![CDATA[This is long, but excellent, and captures a lot of my thinking exactly - "The Slow Death of the Power User":]]>This is long, but excellent, and captures a lot of my thinking exactly - "The Slow Death of the Power User":

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

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(fireborn.mataroa.blog)

TL;DR - Big Tech and other interests have successfully turned most people away from understanding their computing devices, and we all suffer as a result. I strongly recommend reading it for anyone who cares about understanding what their systems do, or what to do when they go wrong, or who likes to build things.

It's from a couple of months ago, but I only discovered it when it went by in my feed here a few days ago.

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