Everytime i hear that someone has left behind the shackles of Big Tech i dream about the possibillity that things can change. Perhaps, with the current political climate, there is a chance...
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The real saving grace, I think, is that we only know how to build one kind of computer, and it's the kind that will run anything we can write for a computer. Which means that we never needed Big Tech and we never will. We'll always be able to write our own stuff.
I know that doesn't always work out in real life. Lots of people won't or can't leave Facebook, for instance, because it's the only place their rare disease group meets, or it's where all the parents at school plan parties and carpools, or it's the only way they get to see photos of their nieces or grandkids on another continent. The problem is still Facebook holding those relationships hostage, and only legislation forcing them to make our information portable will change it (if even that works).
But we can also build other things. Which is a huge advantage.
(And fun. I had this phone for 48 hours before I looked up how people make apps for it. Turns out Jolla provides an entire IDE for the purpose.)