One can only hope, though given how much more authoritarian everyone (in the US, at least) has gotten, I am not holding out much hope. Good luck fighting this; I mean that sincerely.
Every action has an opposite reaction. Thanks to Apple's refusal to cede even a little bit of central control over their ecosystem, to enable decentralized innovation, members of their star silicon design team departed to start afresh with Nuvia.
Now we have Windows Arm PCs with UEFI and upstream Linux support, "close enough" to Apple Silicon perf/watt. PC OEM price competition and enterprise volume buys will yield affordable Arm laptops in a few years. Framework has proven that laptops can be modular. Did they inspire Lenovo to make a more repairable Thinkpad? If Framework releases a modular Arm laptop based on Qualcomm/Mediatek/Nvidia, watch out.
On the software front, the sold-out "Local First" conference recently wrapped in Berlin, https://www.localfirstconf.com/. If HTTP can be extended to support synchronization, it could dramatically lower the cost of cooperative infrastructure, including offline (think Cuba sneakernet) sync, https://stateb.us/what & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016, tearing down big walls of tech and lobbyists.
It's even worse in Europe from what I can tell. The shift took me by surprise, but a decade or so a go I noticed people around me were becoming increasingly authoritarian and pro-surveillance.
Today I'm in a very clear minority today and I think for now that trend will only continue.
Whether by accident or design, the "smartphone" (package of sensors) manufacturing revolution made surveillance cheap and pervasive. Those atop a wealthy hill of deregulated inequality may be attracted to a mirage of tech-enabled control, powered by harvested signals and McKinsey dashboards. But all observations affect the observer, so observe.. wisely.
The MAGA movement in the USA (~30%) has taken on a dangerous cult-like and fascist tendencies and ignore critical thinking, democracy, and facts, and instead glom onto a cult of personality. It’s not enough to believe 95% of what they (the cult) believe, it’s 100% or you will be excommunicated. It’s pretty scary times over here actually
Even if that's not the case, in many political races in the US, MAGA politics is the only option for conservative voters, even those who wouldn't consider themselves a part of the MAGA movement.
Of course, it's pretty messed up that the rationale to continue voting Republican is apparently, "well, I don't like Trump and dictators and the erosion of democratic values, but... man, that Biden guy annoys me".
Now we have Windows Arm PCs with UEFI and upstream Linux support, "close enough" to Apple Silicon perf/watt. PC OEM price competition and enterprise volume buys will yield affordable Arm laptops in a few years. Framework has proven that laptops can be modular. Did they inspire Lenovo to make a more repairable Thinkpad? If Framework releases a modular Arm laptop based on Qualcomm/Mediatek/Nvidia, watch out.
On the software front, the sold-out "Local First" conference recently wrapped in Berlin, https://www.localfirstconf.com/. If HTTP can be extended to support synchronization, it could dramatically lower the cost of cooperative infrastructure, including offline (think Cuba sneakernet) sync, https://stateb.us/what & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016, tearing down big walls of tech and lobbyists.
Some conflicts are won by making them irrelevant.