How true! It's like from the day that Windows went from running under DOS to DOS running under windows, Microsoft has slowly but surely taken power from us and put us under it's thumb! Now, instead of getting our product to work under Windows, it's getting it to run DESPITE windows.

windowscentral[.]com/hardware/big-tech-or-big-brother-our-devices-dont-feel-like-theyre-working-for-us

Reading this I kept thinking of Dragonlair and her recent frustrations.

Back in the day, if I bought a laptop, phone, or other device, I'd customize it until it functioned just the way I liked it. Whatever I bought served as a tool that did exactly what I wanted (within a device's capabilities) and only when I instructed it. The software largely stayed the same aside from manual changes that I instigated. To an extent, those devices thoroughly represented me and my desires, and so it was easy to love them.

But that stability and permanence are gone.

Many modern devices no longer feel like they really belong to us. Sure, I might own the hardware, but its soul is on loan and likely to change, thanks to the internet. That connection means that many of our devices are constantly getting updates that can drastically alter our user experience and how we feel about our devices.