Nah, too much freedom. Use Red Star OS to properly restrict your activities and let NK know what you’re doing.

Normies noticed when MS took away the start menu in W8, but didn’t notice when W10 shipped with a ton of spyware “features”.

So when I walk past some bicycles parked outside of a store, and simply use my eyes to determine if they have locks, I’m essentially a hacker.

Seems like we’ll get financially viable fusion power plants before that happens.

Professional photographers use needles to keep things from sliding around.

That’s not very far in the future, so it’s going to be really exciting to see how that works out.

Looking forward to it, but won’t be disappointed if it takes a bit longer than expected.

Basically anyone can get banned by Google.

The way I see it, we’re finally sliding down the trough of disillusionment.

I agree with you for the most part, but you omitted the symbiotic (or even mutualistic) relationship users and platforms have. For example, Google provides a video platform, and user provide the videos. Such a transaction comes with a contract we all neglected to read, but accepted regardless. As far as the contract is concerned, both parties should be fine with this situation. Nobody is stealing anything.

Obviously, this situation has quite a few problems, and the Fediverse addresses many of them. However, self hosting text, audio and video doesn’t happen for free, just like Google can’t run their servers for free. Either you pay directly to the devs and admins, or you find other creative ways to make money flow. That’s where the Fediverse and commercial platforms differ greatly.