I’ve been saying for a long time (since the 2010s tech boom). There’s needs to be a new term the public lexicon termed “poptech” or popular technology. In the same vein has popsci.

The technology anyone knows anymore is oversimplified for general audiences. These days is almost always imparting wrong understanding.

The industry has been rife with grifters. If people catch on then the bottomless pit of funding will become very shallow.

When someone gets in a clever retort.

I wasn’t making a political statement about Flatpaks.

I downloaded the tor browser binary which runs standalone. Why does it need to be a flatpak?

Their bullet points are spin-doctoring.

Also the comment got a few dozen upvotes almost immediately. Suspicious.