Suddenly it’s 1960.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.

Your “personal computer internet appliance” is a black-box running rented software, just like in the ‘dumb-terminal time-sharing’ era.

Correct answer.

Using any form of biometric ‘login’ under the US’s “justice” system is supremely ill-advised.

When the dust settles, it’ll be just like Ma Bell in 1975: There will be the “Internet Company” just like there was the Phone Company, with a probable ‘bonus’ of an extra “National Internet Corporation” modeled on the BBC.

Storage has never been cheaper.

There’s going to be a seppuku session in somebody’s IT department.

Off to the wrecking-yard and auto-parts house to get more spares for my '99…

If you’re going to monitor me like an airline pilot, you can pay me like one.

…and just turn the computer off and wait for the updates to finish.

Nothing on Reddit can be proved to have come from a “user”, and it’s been that way since the “Great Spezzing of 2016”, where ‘spez’ admitted to falsification and alteration of ‘user’ content.

Communication wasn’t “lost”, it was thrown away through malpractice.

Google up “Commercial Signage Displays”.

…useless tech

Oh, it is “useful”; to the real ‘owners’ of “your” car…

I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo’d “.ml” instead of ‘.mil’ and exposed a lot of sensitive emails…

Yeah? What’s that; 14 seconds of their profits?

The ‘hostage-taker’ will never be able to duplicate my family’s grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won’t care how it “sounds”…