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Exactly: smartphones and tablets are designated safe spaces for 'normies'. If you want to do serious computing, serious machines (laptops, desktops, servers) are still available.


Even as someone who “knows what they are doing” I still want one secure computer to do my banking, hold all my most personal data, etc.

Then I have raspberry pi and steam deck which I use for messing around with and running whatever weird software.


for now.

there are plenty of "honestly-pretty-good reasons" we plebs shouldn't have access to general purpose computers, and we're only a few decades away from them reclassified into the equivalent of fully automatic rifles.




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