One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren't general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control.

Now these rules are moving to laptops and desktops.

I was inspired to expand this into a full article to give myself a bit more space to talk about the issues:

puri.sm/posts/the-general-purp

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