@neil I took my built to be a powerful AI harvesting data exfiltration machine sold to me as a gaming PC, stripped it down to nothing and turned it into a dumb machine. I had to block Microsoft on the network level to stop them from doing whatever they want to my PC. After I happened turn off the internet right when their AI harvesting software they installed on my PC without knowing it was getting ready to exfiltrate data on me, while Intel and Dell also re-installed telemetry, so I said fuck you all and blocked Microsoft and Dell at the network level. Nothing runs in the background ever. If it’s idle it will go you’re not using me so I have nothing to do guess I will just power off then.

@neil

not sure if this is a joke, a thing intended to go viral, or serious, but if the latter

can you give at least one & preferrably 3 specific examples of what you mean ?

@neil you do less the more computer to earn more money doing less, and do more with less computer later using that money as resource

@neil should we meet in 1999 and see if we can't get it right, or do we need to start further back than that?

@neil i was born to use computer, not other way around

@neil Literally me since 1983.

@neil mostly agreed, except i still want CHERI extensions added to all the major instruction sets

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A RAM shortage will teach people that...

@neil ah good old 2010s till 2024 when if someone complains about flatpak taking up so much storage duplicating things or one tab of the browser using gigs of ram, the enlightened technologists would shun & scold them with storage is cheap, ram is cheap...

@neil Well, I like to do more with more computer. But you do you! 😉

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I want to do exactly what I'm already doing on the same computer for the next three decades, with repairs being easy and reasonably priced.

@neil I also want to keep doing the same with computer in absence of various "cloud services" and "subscription software", two things that didn't exist across the first couple decades of my computering and the experience was often far better for it.

@neil @virtualbri The only solution is to go back in time to the late 90s.

@neil Companies selling more computer: "I'm sorry Neil, I'm afraid we can't do that"

@neil I need this on a coffee mug.

@neil And reality is like: Hold my beer

@neil yes please!