To be quite blunt about it, I’m tired of everything constantly being dumbed down to accommodate the lowest common denominator, intellectually non-curious “everyman”. Every once in a while, people should be expected to reach up, just a little. Otherwise, it’s a race to the bottom.
Just because I’m expecting people to reach up doesn’t mean no one will be there to help.
Ok, so it sounds like you are in fact arguing that people shouldn’t be allowed to run a system that forces updates. And yeah, I think we will have to agree to disagree. I believe people should be free to run whatever they want on their own devices, regardless of my personal beliefs.
Remember, we’re not talking about a system that spies on you without telling you, or recommends things to you without you wanting it to, we’re specifically talking about a system that says “either let me update myself, or I will stop functioning”. And I think that’s perfectly reasonable system for a person to want and have.
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Respectfully, I am disagreeing with your point.
To be quite blunt about it, I’m tired of everything constantly being dumbed down to accommodate the lowest common denominator, intellectually non-curious “everyman”. Every once in a while, people should be expected to reach up, just a little. Otherwise, it’s a race to the bottom.
Just because I’m expecting people to reach up doesn’t mean no one will be there to help.
Most people have absolutely no need to understand how the systems they use operate under the hood.
If anyone does care to “reach up”, it’s not hard to find the steps to disable it on Google. But 99.9% of people aren’t going to do that.
Ok, so it sounds like you are in fact arguing that people shouldn’t be allowed to run a system that forces updates. And yeah, I think we will have to agree to disagree. I believe people should be free to run whatever they want on their own devices, regardless of my personal beliefs.
Remember, we’re not talking about a system that spies on you without telling you, or recommends things to you without you wanting it to, we’re specifically talking about a system that says “either let me update myself, or I will stop functioning”. And I think that’s perfectly reasonable system for a person to want and have.