Re: Heat Death of the Internet

On Thu, 2 May 2024, Ben Collver wrote:

On 2024-05-02, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Fascinating how different experiences and life choices can be! Let me
contrast this with some clips from my own life. Obviously this is based
on where I live in northern europe so of course my experience does not
apply equally to yours.
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My life seems more calm, and less exposed to ads and generally more
peaceful than most people.

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I didn't write this article.  It did occur to me that the kind of usage
mentioned in the article is very different from the kind of usage i saw
when i first got online.  It is much more focused on consumption, which
is also the name of a disease.  I grok many of your points, and learned

Ahh... consumption. My biggest sources of consumption is books and once in a while good restaurants. My wife forces me to travel, that's another drain that I'd happily drop, but what does one not do to achieve peace at home. ;)

some of them the hard way.  I used to calendar on a smartphone, and now
i use a pocket calendar with a pencil.  I recall a statement that being

I actually thought about that, tried it once, but it didn't stick. Strangely enough, my wife is 100% pocket calendar with a pencil, and so was my mother. Maybe I should give it another try.