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On 8/3/2024 10:38 PM, Mark P. Nelson wrote:
> Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't have to rent time from
> IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance.
> 
> Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately to revive the "You
> only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line, no matter their public face on the question.
> 
> We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal computers which we own and
> can configure/control as we wish but rather Microsoft or Banana computers for which we pay
> a regular fee.
> 
> Pfui!

Its not just computers.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.