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eqmviitoday at 8:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I like computers more than many members of my family, so...


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alexjplanttoday at 8:31 PM

This is heavily contingent on one's individual experiences. An uncurated modern web/mobile sounds like a hellscape - ads in one's start menu, autoplaying videos, a flood of promotional notifications from shopping apps, people arguing with bots arguing with people about populist political garbage... blech. The real question is how this compares to your family member having a few cocktails then blaming you for their divorce or getting calls from collection agencies on behalf of somebody you haven't seen in five years.

Both of these problem spaces run the gamut from solvable to intractable. Either way you have to put in some work.