#user-agency on Hacker News

2 stories tagged user-agency, newest first.

Screenshot of ideas.imbue.com: Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution (ideas.imbue.com)

12 points by raybb 24 days ago | 2 comments

An essay by Josh Albrecht on Imbue's Substack arguing for a new personal computing revolution that restores user control, free of subscriptions, ads and dark patterns.

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Screenshot of inkandswitch.com: Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)(inkandswitch.com)

144 points by evakhoury 28 days ago | 69 comments

Ink & Switch essay (June 2025) envisioning malleable software that users can reshape to their needs, and the barriers in today's computing stack to achieving it.

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#user-agency on Hacker News

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution(ideas.imbue.com)

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)(inkandswitch.com)

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution (ideas.imbue.com)