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degringolade
Post-Impressionism / Albert Marquet/ Notre-Dame in Winter
As anyone who stops by here knows, I am a linux fanboy and have not had a windows or an apple for years now because they are scum. That being said, I am feeling a bit dirty because right now I am typing away on a chromebook that I bought a while ago and that I use just to keep an alternate means of writing when I am out and about.
Like right now, I am sitting in a bar in Vantucky, sipping on an Irish coffee before noon and plowing. Convenience is pretty substantial and the chromebook is definitely toteable.
But I am kinda leery about being beholden to the whims of a “tech-titan”. But right now I can’t really see any downside.
I spend a lot of time posting shit in this out of the way backwater of the internet. I am thinking that I just use google as a pass-through to get here. I am thinking that Dreamwidth isn’t going to be shutting down my thoughts here anytime in the near future, primarily because you, my gentle readers, are so few.
I am always kind of amazed at the internet, even now. Being as old as I am, I had my first e-mail account in 1986 when at Utah (jeez, it was even on ARPANET). We could look at preprints of articles on the USENET.
But, none of that was slated to last. Business got hold of it and grew it into the world-spanning behemoth that it is now. But with that growth can control, I am not really willing to look right now, but how much of the access to data is controlled by American corporations? Google, Facebook, Amazon? What percentage of what I type in here is filtered through equipment that big companies control?
I suppose that it is the price that I must pay.
But I still get nervous with this little chromebook, as it isn’t a stand-alone system. It is just a smart terminal accessing big business’ capital equipment. At least I can do things on my linux boxes that doesn’t require a internet connection.
polishing the chrome
Date: 2022-01-28 04:01 am (UTC)