Re: The joy of Linux

On 06/11/2024 08:35, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

MIGHT be time to push into a "two worlds" paradigm -
   "cloud" -vs- "local".

Ive seen that see-saw go one way and then the other.
In the beginning computers were Very Expensive, and God said
"Lo, let them time share"
The Lo, the microprocessor arrived, and Bill Gates said:
"Let them have computing power on their desktop" and it *was* good.
But the forces of Evil did then invent universal networking, and the people, being lazy fuckers did cluster to the false Gods of the Clouds who promised: "Give us all your data, and we shall look after all of it for you, and ye shall no longer have to worship at the altar of C:\"
But the high priests of the One True God replied, saying 'verily we say unto ye that the false gods of the Clouds are not your gods, and they are the spawn of Satan, and ye should instead install the mighty Penguin, prophet to the True God,  and be Free and learn to look after your own data".
But the people said 'honestly mate, we cant be fucking bothered. We did exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead rôle in a comfortable cage: We don't need no stinking desktops anyway. That's for content creators -   we are only consumers of popcorn , coke, and whatever drivel is 'free' on air and online'
And they voted for the Orange Jesus, because they were simply *bored of* assholes telling them what to do and treating them like idiots.
"When you follow the [Liberal progressive] herd all you see is assholes."
"Donald may be an asshole, but you said that is what we were anyway, so he is at least *our* asshole."
Ho hum.
Interesting times
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"Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."
― Confucius