#wizdoom

[clouds-of-wings]

Chris David said during his livestream Sunday that he thinks technology has become worse over the last decades because it used to be that tech was made for people who knew what they were doing and if that was you, then you could make it do exactly what you wanted it to do. Whereas nowadays you press a button and have no clue what's going to happen - if it goes well, great, if it doesn't, there's nothing you can really do about it. It's more user-friendly for the "most standard case", but anything else is either made impossible or it's basically random if it works or not.

He was talking about his experiences as an audio technician, but it made me think of how I never figured out how to establish a LAN network under Windows 7 because in an attempt to make it more user-friendly they added a million pointless things like "workgroups" and "network privacy categories" and I couldn't figure out what any of it meant. All in an attempt to keep people from the technical side of it. Whereas in Linux I just set the IP settings to what I wanted and was done, and it has been working the same way for me for a decade. I haven't even tried to make it work under Windows 11. It also made me think of rootkits of course, and of how I'm not even using my new MP3 player anymore because there aren't any that work on it and it just sucks without one because of its pointless "safety settings" that you can't turn off. And of how phone internet sucks 10 times more than desktop internet of course, because desktop vs. phone app is probably the best example of this development. Apps can work like magic, but you can't "look under the hood" and you often have few settings - you just get what you get.

So I would say Chris is right about that. And if you've read this far then get Linux if you haven't already x)