People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.

The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!

If history is any indication then more lock-in will be the future trend. And they will sugarcoat it with reasons such as “this is more secure”.

You need to enable DRM KMS on Nvidia.

I am using it now as I’m commenting.

Been using it daily for years at this point.

As an anecdotal though, I once saw someone simply forwarding (ie. copy and pasting) their exam questions to ChatGPT. His answers are just ChatGPT responses, but paraphrased to make it look less GPT-ish. I am not even sure whether he understood the question itself.

In this case, the only skill that is tested… is English paraphrasing.