From cde6ff18052d3aa0db04d3437e686b40db309286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Allan=20Nordh=C3=B8y?= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 20:44:04 +0000 Subject: First of April blogpost --- _posts/2023-01-04-inmachine.md | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2023-01-04-inmachine.md diff --git a/_posts/2023-01-04-inmachine.md b/_posts/2023-01-04-inmachine.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..baa7ffa --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2023-01-04-inmachine.md @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +--- +title: Future consumed in the machine +author: Allan Nordhøy +layout: single +permalink: /inmachine/ +excerpt: Tragic projections least affected. +categories: + - News + - announcement +tags: + - news +--- + +All wanting to get out, but none daring to stop at the intersection of approached sustainability +in something made a certain way. +Removed from how its parts were sourced, how easily they can be put together or taken apart, +it all still requires users to prolong its death. +So much so that most things or decisions leading to them just _aren't_, +as a result of nobody willing to do it, reality getting in the way or passing by. +It is all a series of interconnected experience, and it is a bus. + +These many tiered approaches in some respects represent +where any project is at in the scheme of things, as compared to other offerings. +Any past where the original timeline wasn't made and doesn't now +continue being sold would not pave the way for what is truly +underestimated. + +When thinking of what one doesn't get elsewhere, it is also something to +be kept in mind for what "the product" is as something different to what is available. +The extreme of one common power metric often doesn't make for a good tool everywhere, +because as only counterproductive — it is something otherwise offered better elsewhere. +Compromises similarly do exist. +Hand in as much freedom as you like. + +The best camera is the one you have in your hands. +Meanwhile most expensive cameras and heavy lenses are producing negative space in some drawer, +producing no greater imagery and imagination than realizing it shouldn't be there. +Before it could sit there dormant for a while without issue, but a user-problem isn't really +solved by having to empty the shelves for new wares every so evermore often. + +What a great proposal for one more, or the generic plural mantra of "new product". +Starting with full shelves with this one, emptying them should bring some level of +nostalgia at best. Throwing away the smart toaster is a duty to fulfil life like +it did in the commercial nobody wanted to see for the tenth time. +Despite more venues of input, more things promising to bring about a new age +is something that will be typed about in public for years to come. +You will eat the smartest toast, and have smart thoughts. +"What a time to be alive", you will not think to yourself, as repeated by staff at the behest of +corporate policy at the onset of your indulgence. + +The distance is closed for when there is time already killed in for example transporting oneself +somewhere at the helm, joystick, autopilot, or wheel of someone else. +Maybe you will even be a good product for a good hour or two? +Oh, but the battery lasts longer, yes. +Sometimes an "emergency" as measured by relative escape from society occurs. +Then it may be your only hope in fending off loosened elective mind-control. How often? +Less often than not aimlessly trying to recharge after every futile use one could be permitted to think. +For every hour typed away, there are minutes and sanity spared in not trying to +make it a continuous two. For all sanity lost, time spent ceases to control anything of value. +Your private thoughts can not be stripped from you if you become the cloud. + +It is one thing to envision a conceptual idea of utility, but rather another to have albeit at a price-premium, to be a still approachable embodiment of product placement. +This is the new old. It is meant to get old. This is how it used to be. +You can get "the future" if you want to. The future is "a word inserted", and that word is "bleak" as far +as I can tell. Bleak. + +The fourth wall sells you this idea for free: How much would someone have to care about their users to do this? +Surely the big players are not going in the totally opposite direction, together? +After all it says moral purchases from them create of you an ecosystem of greater repairability, less +surveillance, more freedom, and fewer things focused on passive consumption rather than creative +space and output? It must be true. + +Granted, you are already here, but where along the way marches your tech-support for your current (ensnaring) circle? +Fridge says "No"? New computer is as soulless as its intentions? Faucet knows about your wireless network +and your online purchase history? "New thing bad, new thing bad" you scream, and the rotating soup stirrer listens. + +They are all waiting for it. It is about that time — the incentive to start, continue or increase doing something. +Measured use of a personal computer is required for anything that can call itself a person, +which at that can point out its non-inherent but bundled flaws in maybe such a way as to appear truly human. + +For any problem worth your time so much so that you aren't getting rid of it, the +stuff outside of the box your problem is or came in always works better. + +Buy, (buy, buy) this computer, and let your cat play with the packaging if you want to know how to use it. \ +https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform -- cgit v1.2.3