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It only took me six years and two beers to realise what it was that I've been longing for all this time: Simplicity and control.
Understand, I've been using computers every day since Windows 95. I'm used to things being cruder, but at least cruder in a way that I could understand.
I've been using the internet every day since 2001. I'm used to things being simpler, but simpler in a way that I could form.
I've no idea how people go about making websites today, except that I know that it probably a lot of shit I don't know. Of course, people don't have websites any longer, they've got Facebook accounts.
I'm updating on my netbook, running some breed of Linux that probably won't let me edit the files I'm syncing with Windows Live Mesh in any way counted as "smooth", but at least the computer is a lot less sluggish on this than on Windows 7 starter. I can't claim to like the UI, but it no longer takes twenty seconds to open a video file and I've figured out how to set the wallpaper. I can live with that, since I got the netbook for writing and for being online when on the road. Now I've got the tablet doing the last one - even if it has an annoying tendency to load the mobile pages instead of the regular ones (here is where I'd say something about "control" and how I feel about the internet supervising my browsers). The netbook, then, is mostly for maybe doing text editing when I'm away from other computers, even though experience says it's for watching Code Geass when travelling.
What I really want is to make my own decisions about my computer instead of doing what various programmers want me to do, but I'm probably twelve years too late for that.
Understand, I've been using computers every day since Windows 95. I'm used to things being cruder, but at least cruder in a way that I could understand.
I've been using the internet every day since 2001. I'm used to things being simpler, but simpler in a way that I could form.
I've no idea how people go about making websites today, except that I know that it probably a lot of shit I don't know. Of course, people don't have websites any longer, they've got Facebook accounts.
I'm updating on my netbook, running some breed of Linux that probably won't let me edit the files I'm syncing with Windows Live Mesh in any way counted as "smooth", but at least the computer is a lot less sluggish on this than on Windows 7 starter. I can't claim to like the UI, but it no longer takes twenty seconds to open a video file and I've figured out how to set the wallpaper. I can live with that, since I got the netbook for writing and for being online when on the road. Now I've got the tablet doing the last one - even if it has an annoying tendency to load the mobile pages instead of the regular ones (here is where I'd say something about "control" and how I feel about the internet supervising my browsers). The netbook, then, is mostly for maybe doing text editing when I'm away from other computers, even though experience says it's for watching Code Geass when travelling.
What I really want is to make my own decisions about my computer instead of doing what various programmers want me to do, but I'm probably twelve years too late for that.