I've figured out why we all like spending so much time at our computers. It's all wrapped up in the term 'Personal Computer'. Our computers are our own little universes that we are the god of and we have utterly domain within.
Just check out the titles 'My Computer', 'My Documents', 'My Music' and coming soon: 'My Personality', 'My Education', and maybe even 'My Sexuality'.
All of this will eventually fall under the master directory 'Me', at about the point when computers start to be grafted into our brains directly.
Our PC's are the ultimate end of the Post-Modern culture, they are the way we've manage to be the true center of our own personal little universes which can interact with the universes of others without encroaching too much on the territory of someone else's universe.
A perfect little solution really. Except if you run Windows.
If you run Windows your universe is open to all sorts of exploits, attacks, and viri. You universe only has the appearance of being self-contained.
Obviously there is a degree of insecurity in a Linux universe as well but it's much more controllable (depending on how much security you want to enforce and what you install in the way of servers) not to mention the fact that no one writes viri for Linux yet.
My girlfriend keeps telling me to reinstall Windows, that we live in a Windows world and that I can't possible manage to do everything I want to do with my computer running just Linux. And yet...
The thing is all my needs really ARE being met. If I were still a hardcore gamer then that might not be the case. More case in point, as of now I own 6 computers: 3 minitowers, 2 laptops, one palmtop.
I really don't know what it's like for he rest of you but in my case old computer hardware just seems to pile up around me. Not that I'm complaining. At least on of these can run Windows in the wildly unlikely emergency event that I can't get something running under Linux.
Anyways, I consider running Linux to be a statement of ideals perhaps one of the few REAL and STRONG social disobediences that are still available to us is our choice in software. Sharing music is breaking the law and there are good arguments against it but running Linux is perfectly legal and yet still a strong political/economic/social statement.
I guess what I'm saying is in my personal universe things run my way. And my way (just ask my friends and family) is never the easy way.
Just check out the titles 'My Computer', 'My Documents', 'My Music' and coming soon: 'My Personality', 'My Education', and maybe even 'My Sexuality'.
All of this will eventually fall under the master directory 'Me', at about the point when computers start to be grafted into our brains directly.
Our PC's are the ultimate end of the Post-Modern culture, they are the way we've manage to be the true center of our own personal little universes which can interact with the universes of others without encroaching too much on the territory of someone else's universe.
A perfect little solution really. Except if you run Windows.
If you run Windows your universe is open to all sorts of exploits, attacks, and viri. You universe only has the appearance of being self-contained.
Obviously there is a degree of insecurity in a Linux universe as well but it's much more controllable (depending on how much security you want to enforce and what you install in the way of servers) not to mention the fact that no one writes viri for Linux yet.
My girlfriend keeps telling me to reinstall Windows, that we live in a Windows world and that I can't possible manage to do everything I want to do with my computer running just Linux. And yet...
The thing is all my needs really ARE being met. If I were still a hardcore gamer then that might not be the case. More case in point, as of now I own 6 computers: 3 minitowers, 2 laptops, one palmtop.
I really don't know what it's like for he rest of you but in my case old computer hardware just seems to pile up around me. Not that I'm complaining. At least on of these can run Windows in the wildly unlikely emergency event that I can't get something running under Linux.
Anyways, I consider running Linux to be a statement of ideals perhaps one of the few REAL and STRONG social disobediences that are still available to us is our choice in software. Sharing music is breaking the law and there are good arguments against it but running Linux is perfectly legal and yet still a strong political/economic/social statement.
I guess what I'm saying is in my personal universe things run my way. And my way (just ask my friends and family) is never the easy way.
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'My Personality', 'My Education', and maybe even 'My Sexuality'.
Oh shit. That's funny. What is Linux? I hear about it all the time but I never know what the fuck it is. I have Windows.