In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

  • @[email protected]
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    814 hours ago

    Thanks. While I was hooked, I had a feeling most people wouldn’t commit to such a long article

    My favourite quote:

    Aside: I swear to god, if your answer here is “get a MacBook Air, they’re only $600,” I beg you — I plead with you — to speak with people outside of your income bracket at a time when an entire election was decided in part because everything’s more expensive.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      412 hours ago

      As if Apple wasn’t just as much a part of the problem as the rest of them.