I would also argue that _what_ personal computing means to most people has also evolved, even with younger generations. My gen Z nephew the other day was faberglasted when he learned I use my Documents, Videos, Desktop folders, ect. He literally asked "What is the Documents folder even for?". To most people, stuff is just magically somewhere (the cloud) and when they get a new machine tbey just expect it all to be there and work. I feel like these cryptography and legality discussions here on HackerNews always miss the mark because we overestimate hiw much most people care. Speaking of younger generations, I also get the feeling that there isn't such a thing as "digital sovereignty" or "ownership", at least not by the same definitions we gen x and older millennials internalize those definitions.

Across the generations, there are always a few groups to where cryptographic ownership really matter, such as journalists, protesters, and so on. Here on HN I feel like we tend to over-geeneralize these use cases to everybody, and then we are surprised when most people don't actually care.

It's just a matter of time. It's obvious the tides are turning.

I bet most mainstream users thinks it good that FBI can access suspects data.

MacOS has basically the exactly same problem, ADP isn't enabled by default and your data gets backed up to iCloud unencrypted.

macOS and iOS both send Push Notification data directly to the US federal government, according to Senator Ron Wyden: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

As my family's tech support department, i switched them over to linux long ago. For the last decade, my elderly parents used linux laptops and much prefered the stability.