I predicted this 10y ago. Let’s be real, most people are manipulated so easily into surrendering their freedoms that it makes no sense to even allow R2R and the ability to install and configure your OS and devices. Everything will become a black cube with no buttons, simply a proximity sensor that turns on the mind-reading device and ejects a newspaper, a cup of coffee, and so on.

> being allowed to download stuff, to take screenshots and to pirate and talk in an encrypted channel

bruh… just like any other invention, the only people that deserve to truly benefit from it are the psychos (CEOs, politicians, etc.). In the following years we will have even more mathematical ways in which the population is abused. Non-repudiation of any electronic communication. Digital fingerprints linked to your citizen ID that can be viewed by any company provided they pay a small sum, and they will be allowed to view your entire life (gigabytes of personal information, body temperature, anus diameter, number of sexual partners, vaginal orgasm possible or not, etc.)

Just look at a fucking modern device. There’s no way in hell this would’ve continued to go on. Literally everything in our modern lives is a bureaucratic nightmare, enmeshed in complex laws that favor the rich. Why the fuck would YOU be ALLOWED (read: PERMITTED) to use modular hardware, to open up a laptop, and so on? WHY?