...sometimes, man. Forgive kind of a rant and ramble; I'm not sure if there's actually a better place to post this. Every generation at times thinks the previous is a bunch of stick-in-the-muds, and the next is deranged. I've been hitting a lot of the latter lately, reading up on Win10 and other tech news - modern computing confuses, occasionally frightens, and very much makes me feel old. I consider myself part of the Computer Generation, not the Internet Generation, and I've some bullet points to vent, in no particular order. Maybe y'all of varied age ranges on this site can offer some insight.
- I don't want to be connected to everything all the time. It's unnecessary to be checking for 'status updates' 24x7.
- My stuff does not need to be distributed, clouded, broadcast, or shared all over the damn place. It needs to be accessible to one person (me) at one location at a time (usually my office).
- If I buy a piece of software, I have bought a piece of software. So long as I have no illicit plans, I should be able to do with it as I please. It doesn't need to phone home on a daily basis.
- I prefer to remain smarter than my phone. Then again, for me it's not a multimedia-internet-connectivity platform. It's a phone.
- I don't 'get' Social Media. I can't think of a single person who would care in the least about anything I could post to FaceMyGoogTwit.
- It bothers me that there's no physical switch to turn off the wireless on my work laptop.
- It weirds me out that there are Kids Today who have never handled a CD, much less a floppy of any size or any sort of tape.
- I find it disturbing that there are cellphones and tablets out there designed specifically for the under-ten age bracket.
- I remember when multiple programs fit on a single floppy.
- I also remember when 14.4 was the thing and the internet was The Internet.
- I prefer to do things over the phone or in person where possible; y'know, actually -talk- to someone, possibly see their face?
- I remember dropping $50 for a 256MB keydrive in college. That kinda cash gets you a terabyte now. And I once found a receipt in my dad's binders for a box of 10 1.2MB floppies - $20.
- Netrunner is a card game set in a dystopian sci-fi future where computers are everything and villainous mega-companies run the world. A sci-fi future. Right?
- Get off my lawn.
- Oh, help.
- How's commercial Linux these days? Need an OS that isn't spying on me.
- Yeah, send help.
- I don't want to be connected to everything all the time. It's unnecessary to be checking for 'status updates' 24x7.
- My stuff does not need to be distributed, clouded, broadcast, or shared all over the damn place. It needs to be accessible to one person (me) at one location at a time (usually my office).
- If I buy a piece of software, I have bought a piece of software. So long as I have no illicit plans, I should be able to do with it as I please. It doesn't need to phone home on a daily basis.
- I prefer to remain smarter than my phone. Then again, for me it's not a multimedia-internet-connectivity platform. It's a phone.
- I don't 'get' Social Media. I can't think of a single person who would care in the least about anything I could post to FaceMyGoogTwit.
- It bothers me that there's no physical switch to turn off the wireless on my work laptop.
- It weirds me out that there are Kids Today who have never handled a CD, much less a floppy of any size or any sort of tape.
- I find it disturbing that there are cellphones and tablets out there designed specifically for the under-ten age bracket.
- I remember when multiple programs fit on a single floppy.
- I also remember when 14.4 was the thing and the internet was The Internet.
- I prefer to do things over the phone or in person where possible; y'know, actually -talk- to someone, possibly see their face?
- I remember dropping $50 for a 256MB keydrive in college. That kinda cash gets you a terabyte now. And I once found a receipt in my dad's binders for a box of 10 1.2MB floppies - $20.
- Netrunner is a card game set in a dystopian sci-fi future where computers are everything and villainous mega-companies run the world. A sci-fi future. Right?
- Get off my lawn.
- Oh, help.
- How's commercial Linux these days? Need an OS that isn't spying on me.
- Yeah, send help.
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