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1 hour agoWell, for one they and their buddies can make new consumer PCs as closed as phones are. Old hardware will eventually run out if they’ll keep the cartel knit tight enough.
Besides that, there is a slow but steady push to get rid of cash. Once it’s gone, the only convenient way to use money for regular people will be digital banking. I think tech buddies won’t have a hard time convincing bank buddies and gov buddies that any device/system not coming from authorized corpo is not safe to support. It would make those resisting assimilate, or quickly fall to the society’s bottom.
On the contrary, I’ve had exactly opposite experience. Had to use “connection repair tool” every time before printing on windows. On Linux I had to learn what to install at first to make my printer work, but once I did I have never had any problem occur.