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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9855567" data-attributes="member: 18">You've made no case whatsoever for there being a common irrational sentimental attachment, merely asserted that there is one. amd just pre-insulted and pre-demeaned anyone who thinks that non-digital-heavy approaches have value! Which you now agree they undeniably do! Why come in that hot? When you come in so hot even I, an idiot, would think twice, that's coming too hot imho!So the "ceci ne pas une pipe" is hardly relevant or apposite, is it?There's an obvious potential future which hybridizes the benefits of both physical and digital with large, durable screens, single-purpose (or easily locked-down devices), and so on, but unfortunately the world we live in isn't very interested in producing cheap, durable, reliable, non-bothersome devices, because all the profit is in trying to convince people they need to be on social media 24/7, getting updates 24/7, using AI 24/7, subscribed to a thousand services, and that they need to replace their device, which should be as expensive as possible because otherwise they'll look like some kind of peasant, at least once every two years.So the "good future" of hybrid digital-physical actually seems to be receding, a path not taken. I'm not without hope but it would require a bit of a turnaround.I will admit this is a pretty good bit.</blockquote>