15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
12:37 p.m.
If you ask me, computing itself is something of the
past. What is
actually 'computed' nowadays on the tons of worthless 'smart phones'
and other nonsensical wastes of cycles and electricity?
I think I've mentioend this before, but whenever I see an advert for a
computer, or some poor salesman tries to sell me one, they tell me it can
store all my photos [1], store all my msuic [2]. etc. Not a single word
about programming it . And yet that's waht I want a computer for.
[1] Oh yes? What, even 5*4 sheet film?
[2] And 1/4" recording tape?
I'm not even near as old as some of those posting here and I'm
already bittered (or was, certainly, more so a while back).
I've come to accept that it's a consumerist culture where
everything is disposable. (In this supposedly 'more and more'
"green" world.) So, I've started not to care much and not
attach to much to a computer.
I actively look for things I can repair (even simple, cheap things) and
flatly refuse ot buy any product consint more than, say \pounds 10.00
that I cannot fix. If this means I have to use older, better-built
things, so be it.
I do have these SGIs here to remind me of better times, with
one still very capable (SGI Tezro) to actually do some work
on.
My classic computers do all I need to do....
-tony