Also doesn’t help that these companies pass around money with eachother and government entities all the time so they don’t tecnically need any of our business to function. Which enables them to pull this kinda shit and wait for us to get mad enough or to put up with it.

My concern in the long run is that over time the newer generations arent going to ever learn/know how freeing personal computing used to be. They’ll gradually put up with worser and worser and this intrusive encroach on our technological freedom is going to look terribly different in the coming decades.

You would think right. I recently had a transit pass loading application update and demand that I turn off developer mode to continue use. This app is also run by a government agency across the pond(canada). Went over to the play store reviews and were all complaining about it.

They allege it was to help protect accounts and personal data. Ok, then why doesn’t my bank account get compromised regularly? Or any other account I’ve logged into on my phone literally ever because I had turned on dev mode weeks after getting my first android 10 years ago. This application has been janky for years and only in the past month have they made positive changes to its functionality. I am biased and maybe more irked then necessary but I do expect better/the minimum from these kinds of institutions.

That is a level of ingenuity that I love to see in people. Application of it is nooot great but he’s got the spirit.

While there is definitely an oddly surprising amount of z’ers who seem to barely get tech, I would like to biasedly add that the older of us are largely tech literate, of course exceptions apply. We grew up with computers in the home and at the very least know our way around a file browser. But some folks just a few years under me don’t have any other tech then there phones and don’t seem to care or even think about pc’s.

Got a new job recently and the other person training with me didn’t own any kind of pc and said that she didn’t like them. It was weird to me I kept asking her like but what about when you need one and it didn’t seem that she ever did. As a tech addled fiend I can’t fully comprehend this, I can only get by with my phone for so long on certain tasks before I put it down and pull out my computer. But to each their own I guess?