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I devoured the Steampunk Bible this week (a pretty good read, though elitist at times) and there's one interview that asks, "why do people get into Steampunk?" And the short answer is, because we like to create. Because we live in a society where things are created for us-electronics, computers, even our phones-and we want to go back to a time
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re: building a computer: seems like that's partially a differing social circles thing? like, most my college friends just had laptops, because they're just easier to carry around and do stuff with, but all my gaming buddies still build their own machines, and i built the desktop back at home in kentucky
with laptops and mobile, the unfortunate reality is that, since those products are optimized to be small, as in only-a-machine-could-put-this-together-consistently, they're hard to tinker with-but that's more of a realities-of-physics constraint than the-companies-want-everything-to-be-the-same. there's nothing to stop you from popping open a laptop and fix stuff, but it's a whole nother level of difficulty from building a desktop
and anyway, if you still wanna tinker, you should totally look into arduino and the cool stuff people have been building with that-growing up, i certainly didn't have the resources or equipment or access or anything to where i'd be able to dick around with a fully-functional microcontroller; nowadays the kit is like, sixty bucks or something? and you can do so much, it's rad
and if you want to tinker with your os, or your software, you can always look into installing an operating system like ubuntu or, if you're really hardcore, arch linux-you install all your packages from the command line, you roll your own kernels, etc etc
...okay i'll shut up now because i just realized this is totally me just trying to spread The Holy Open Source Gospel haha : P
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