Your first post is definitely missing the point of the article and you're cherry-picking things to be annoyed about. You yourself jumped head first into "debate mode". This second post is now hostile and "adversarial". I think you're in a shitty frame of mind and projecting it onto me. I literally joined a couple of hours ago, contributed once and my first reply is some aggressive gate-keeping and newbie-shaming and calling reddit a trash heap with the obvious implication that I'm part of the problem. You're demonstrating exactly the kind of crap I just signed up here to avoid but now I'm not so sure I wanna stick around. So thanks for the welcome, I guess
Fair enough, man. Yeah, I'm in a shitty frame of mind today. It's unfair to take it out on you. I don't believe that choosing to focus on one facet of an article constitutes cherry picking; nor does it demonstrate anything about my grasp of the article. It was just a comment I made when I woke up and decided today was the day I'd speak up on hubski after some silence. Ultimately, my point: while the author makes good arguments about how all-encompassing these companies have become, it doesn't serve her argument to belabor minor inconveniences like not getting to share pics on instagram and having to carry cash and having to buy a paper calendar. At best, those arguments just make it sound like she's trying to make living without those services more inconvenient than they are. Which she doesn't need to do. At worst, they sound like some upper cruster sneering at the hoi polloi: "who has to pay their babysitter in cash anymore? What's the point of taking a picture of your child if you can't easily quantify how much people approve of the picture?" It's one quibble with one part of the article. Never meant for it to be anything other than that. You are welcome here, as I was when I wandered over, as is anybody. I encourage you to dig around a little and get to know people before jumping in.
All good. We all have off days. I wonder if the author was trying to represent the reader who would object to what she's trying to do with the complaints you pointed out. Is she trying to answer those questions by showing that she had similar issues, etc.
It's almost a rite of passage for tech journalists to do the performative cold turkey thing. Meanwhile most of the civil libertarians are all about "if you don't like Facebook, get off of Facebook." I myself have said "our lives would be no worse without Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Netflix." Articles like this point out that the hydra is so multi-headed now that you'll never cut them all off.
🎶 Why can't we be friends, Why can't we be friends 🎶 I agree - fuffle can be snarky (not nearly as snarky as me but still). And I agree - the article is about the ubiquity of the services we use and how even if you try to eliminate them, you have to eliiminate far, far more than you intend. Getting a photo out of a camera and to a friend on the Internet is tricky. Instagram is seamless. Playing music these days is tricky. Spotify is seamless. I mean, I listen to audiobooks from my public library and if Overdrive isn't on AWS, it's on Rakuten. And while paper calendars are great if they work for you, my wife and I are running twelve google calendars. For that matter, both of her EHRs (Electronic Health Record Systems) run on Google calendars and an iPad.
Playing music isn't so bad if you just bought a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls hooked up to a nice little stereo tube amp and you sister in law is staying with you for a godamn month so the only thing you want to do is hide in your basement and pour through your old vinyl collection. Just butting in to speaker brag... Sister and law broke all the ground rules for staying with us two days into her visit. Thank God for the speakers or I'd have gotten drunk and became the "angry unreasonable guy," and made all the women cry by now. I like the Cornwalls way better than the LaScallas or the Hereseys.
Your comment made my day! I spent 30+ years looking for my "perfect sound", I put it in quotes because I feel it's just as subjective as my favorite food. I ended up with a pair of Cornwalls, a handmade tube amp by this guy John Hogan and a VPI Scoutmaster. I smile every time I listen.
I've listened to the whole Klipsch line up and the Cornwalls are my favorite. I've heard some kick ass JBL's but for the price people are asking I never seriously compared them. I need a better amp. I've got a little 25 watt tube amp but it has a low buzz that makes me crazy. The buzz disappears at any volume but... I should probably sell off or try to trade some music gear and see what I can get into. It will probably be a long while before a gather up the bread to upgrade my Technics 1200, it's good enough for now.
Oh man, i miss my Cornwalls. Awesome speakers. I had to part with them many years ago due to financial hardship. Life is good now, would be better with some cornwalls though.