[noir_lord]

There is an entire generation who have grown up with the cloud and just see that as the default because it is.

Which isn’t to say that everyone in that generation thinks the cloud is the sensible way to do it or that prior generations didn’t (it wouldn’t have “won”).

My boy only understands what a file system is because I explained it to him, all his tech (with the exception of his gaming PC) might as well be magic black boxes for the amount of understanding he has on how it works.

[m4rtink]

That's the whole problem from my point of view - we have a whole generation that don't really know anything other than these centralized magic black boxes.

That's very dangerous, as it gives a lot of easy to missuse power to the few people actually running these centralized black box services & their victims will not be able to do anything about it due to lack of knowledge how things actually work & viable alternatives.