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Free software scares normal people

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917 points cryptophreak | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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chasing0entropy ◴[30 Oct 25 17:34 UTC] No.45762691[source]▶
I feel like the author wants everything to be Apple simplified. That all users should dumb down to on off go and stop. Ask chat got for anything else. I disagree for so many obvious reasons it's pointless to iterate them. We as a society need to get MORE capable, more critical, and improve our cognitive abilities; not the opposite.
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tonyedgecombe ◴[30 Oct 25 19:13 UTC] No.45764055[source]▶
I’m not sure I’d describe Apple products as simplified any more, take a look at the settings in iOS for example, it has grown in complexity with each release.
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1. array_key_first ◴[30 Oct 25 23:52 UTC] No.45766854[source]▶
Yes, that's because Apple found out that the domain space is actually complex. Device configuration is complicated because devices are used in thousands of different permutations of environments and people.

The simplicity Apple had was always a mistake, an artifact of their hubris.