• Oregon Trail didn’t ask you for your cookie preferences
• VisiCalc didn’t require an always on internet connection
• WordStar didn’t auto-update and restart in the middle of an essay
• Applesoft BASIC didn’t require a fully provisioned S3 instance
• Impulse Tracker didn’t try to feed your composition to an LLM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Planet

that’s one area you have to be VERY careful with – co-opting the language of the oppressor is one thing, but in most cases, the oppressor’s language was the one used to erase indigenous languages (cultural genocide) – this was so prevalent across the US and Canada, that many indigenous American societies have to turn to ethnographic records compiled by those same colonizers in an effort to rebuild or recreate their native languages