It feels like all the joy I used to feel from being an enthusiast has been completely voided as computing has become the modern vector for fascism and surveillance. I find myself recoiling from all online spaces, even independent and open source ones that I’d loved and supported in the past.
It’s been an exceptionally strange impulse to go from having an elaborate online presence to now feeling like the only acceptable way to engage with the network is to have as minimal of an online footprint as possible.
This especially hurts when it feels like an issue of skilling, where I know how to do certain tasks with computers, but have to teach myself for the first time the analogue alternatives that my parents and their parents likely already knew well.
How have you chosen to deal with it? Do you find yourself moving away from computing and the internet, despite formerly loving it as a hobby? Have you replaced things that computers used to do for you with analogue replacements?
I’m curious how other people are experiencing this.
For every bad thing there are good things.
Linux starting to go mainstream and duel boot is 90% not required anymore.
I know a kid that uses a local AI model to help him write. Where he couldn’t barely communicate before.
For every social media site there are places like this or the tildeverse that let people communicate and build relationships.
For every tech bro there is a kid that doesn’t feel like they belong anywhere making friends online that he finally clicks with. There is me helping some person in a chat room on IRC fix a Linux issue that I don’t know and will never meet and get nothing from just because its nice and fun to help people.
Duel boot - is that why Microsoft keeps erasing the Linux partition. Didn’t realize it was a contest.
(Excuse me, know what you meant and not usually the spelling police, but this made me laugh)
No worries I’m keeping it misspelled as it is indeed funny