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The alternative is the internet would be vastly more saturated with botnets and the accompanying fraudulent they are used for.

I totally get what you are saying though. But kids these day can have way more impact than the bad old days of C64 command line basic. It’s just at a different level of abstraction. And people who want to tinker with the bowels of a device can always run Linux or one of the many microcontrollers on the market. A $5 ESP32 can do way, way more cool shit than my old commodore computer.



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