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by sudohalt 310 days ago
The analogy doesn't make any sense, computers today are better by any conceivable metric than computers before.
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The computers, yes. The experience of using them, no.

There is a joy to having a tool that lets you do what you never could before that has been buried along the way in layers of petty annoyances and digital micro aggressions. As you say, computers today are better by so many metrics—including, unfortunately, their ability to tracks us, sell us things we neither need nor want, outrage and distract us.