Windows 11 is enshittfying a feature that let you skip making a Microsoft account

There, FTFY.

Isn’t that the plot of a Black Mirror episode.

“Victory for free speech (as long as it means only we get to talk”)! /s

I don’t get it. Why Batman?

Actually, it was invented by Douglas Engelbart in Stanford in the 60s

https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/162/000/

Xerox (re)made it for the PC in the 80s.

I agree to a certain extent; at least elementary school should and remain device free.

Matrix being federated and interoperable from day 1 was pushing for this and there was a blog post on this:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/

Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.

Seems like this can be done in the browser using a user agent switcher.