• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    “Everyone gets a computer in their pocket!”

    “Yay!”

    “Also, the computer is hooked up to the big machine that injects brain poison into your eye holes.”

    “Oh… I guess I’ll just turn the computer off from time to time.”

    “If you turn the computer off, your boss fires you.”

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      And spies on you relentlessly through your pocket with multiple sensors and a constant network connection; don’t forget that.

      “I guess I’ll change the system to remove the spyware?”

      “Yeah it’s actually going to work totally differently from a PC, and be a lot harder to modify - impossible without refounding the silicon on some models.”