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I don't think this is the same cycle as we have seen. Each cycle has been more evil and destructive, and we are reaching the pinnacle. There are also external factors in play today that were not in the past ( direct government intervention with suppression )
And id don't have the traditional stick. Ill take an AR with me to the porch instead. lol ( or an EMP generator.. that would be cool.. )
Mon Aug 31 2026 09:52:46 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarPut the stick down, old man. Remember that the "entire IT industry" was once IBM and its mainframes. We've seen this movie before. A lot. When technology is not provided on favorable terms it is eventually cloned or replaced. We only accept so much friction before developing an alternative.
If this truth were not truthy there would have been no Android in the first place.
Whatever changes, it won't be us old men who change it - I guess. It'll be young people breaking the chains. All we can do is influence them.
Mon Aug 31 2026 09:52:46 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarPut the stick down, old man. Remember that the "entire IT industry" was once IBM and its mainframes. We've seen this movie before. A lot. When technology is not provided on favorable terms it is eventually cloned or replaced. We only accept so much friction before developing an alternative.
If this truth were not truthy there would have been no Android in the first place.
So as mentioned a while ago, Google is moving away from Chromebooks to a new OS and re-branding them as 'Google-books" ( sort of, its really just re-branded and updated Android, not bad, but not 'new', but more hardware support ) Sounds all fine an dandy on paper, and i guess the first batch is about to be ready for sale here soon from 3 or 4 of the major PC vendors ( like dell, hp, bla bla ).
They start around 900 bucks. No one is going to buy that nonsense. For that price they will just get a windows device. Chromebooks had the advantage they were affordable, and 'good enough to get the job done' for most people..
What a joke.