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> Computers are telling me what to do, but I can’t tell them what to do.

This absolutely infuriates me, I feel like I have zero control over my computer these days and it has gotten far, far worse in only the last few years.

The computer does things I didn’t ask it to do, things I don’t want it to do, and it refuses to listen when I say otherwise.

It legitimately angers me when something unexpected and unpredictable happens because someone else somewhere decided it needed to “for my own good”, and I don’t have the power to stop it.

I have strongly “rebelled” against this on my personal computers and it has heavily influenced the operating systems and software on top of them I am willing to use.



But if the fellow with his foot on your neck really does know better, and is only strangling you for your own good, then isn't it just your own foolishness that leads you to protest?

/S




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