> Will this ever end?

It remains an interesting question. Is there any way to reclaim the autonomy and ethos of freedom from the earlier part of the digital era?

I'm not sure how that would look. I don't mean in terms of a set of hardware and software solutions.

I mean technology that's actually for the end users, available to everyone with curiosity as the only barrier to entry. It sounds like a utopian delusion even though it existed not so long ago.

I'm not sure there's a realistic way to get there from here. I'd love to be wrong about that though.