[smoldesu]

> in these comments on how “it’s inevitable” or “already cooked” but only if you see these fights in isolation.

It is, in fact, over.

Commodity hardware has no "escape hatch" anymore. If you want to, say, implement custom encryption or ensure anonymity/financial independence for yourself, you cannot stop the Powers That Be. You are helpless to resist Apple or Google or Microsoft if they tell you "no".

The fight was lost when we decided that we didn't need computing rights. The rest, as they say, is history.