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by 8note 842 days ago
There's really no reason a laptop or a desktop should be considered as some special device that's required to not be locked down either.

It's just a combination of hardware and software running on top of it

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To be honest, a lot of end-user problems would go away if they were restricted to a child-proofed version of computers.

In a sense they have been doing that to themselves by not knowing how it works, or how to write code, which already restricts them to things other people made.

They then further restricted themselves by migrating most of their work to mobile devices that run software that only the vendor realistically can be in charge of (mostly due to NDAs for the IP Cores like baseband and SoC, but the amount of kernel patches you get with Android hardware is insane... good luck trying to get a recent kernel for those).

As a result, there are mostly behaviour based problems that remain, most technical problems have disappeared. That is an effect (and limitation) that we cannot deny.