Does anyone remember when computers were supposed to work for us? It seems that we are working for them.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. [0]
I do not consent to the machine as God machina ut deus
Never forget that these machines are an amalgam of inputs, the exact opposite of what makes me an individual. I get to choose and create meaning based on my unique knowledge, experiences, thought processes and emotions --- Not everyone else's.
[0] Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt with high certainty.
I am looking forward to a CA constitutional challenge. I suspect that people have been sufficiently hoodwinked that a petition drive and vote would fail.
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I wanted a full size keyboard that is lighted for visibility, like laptop keyboards. No thanks, Apple. I am using a Logitech now. I really wanted a wired keyboard for instant keyboard recognition on startup, but the USB-C port is for charging only. It seems to turn off the backlighting in daylight, so I leave if charging all the time and restart the keyboard when it does.
Another example of equipment designed for people 25 years old and younger.
Andrew and's abs and abs abs and Andrew and Andrew and Ann's abs.
This is swipe typing on ios 18.x
I repeatedly typed abs, correct that, abs, correct that, ands, correct that abs, correct that abs, correct that abs, correct that abs, correct that, ands, correct that, ands, correct that, abs, correct that ands, correct that ands, correct that ands, correct that ands, correct that ands .., I frickin give up.
How could the most common word be so butchered? Other words come out fine, as this post attests.
I have turned off every automation of typing that I could find, because some of the substitutions that the software made on my typing were brutal.
Still, Hell will freeze over before I downgrade to ios 26.
You have choice, something people in other states don't have. I bought a 3 bedroom like-new home in the Sierra foothills for less than half the state median home price. Backup power, my own well. It's a prepper's (and photographer's) paradise, though I am not a prepper.
People work from home here at jobs elsewhere.
If things are bad, take action. Fight regulatory capture by utilities and (ahem) Giant tech companies. Fight billionaires' campaigns against the average homeowner and renter. Prop 13 was meant to keep taxes down for businesses that never move. Citizens move often, except for a handful. Don't trust tech execs. Many of them are on powerful drugs. The wealthy can never have enough. Any solution is extremely difficult due to the extreme concentration of wealth.
There are large cities with everything you need ... airport, Amtrak, medical facilities and ta-da universities, at half the state median price.
I see new home developments replacing farm land. People love the multicultural and energetic, high tech and old redwood bay and coastal areas. Having lived in the bay some 30 years and in the woods some 10 years, here's a clue. The state and your community is its PEOPLE.
Very often, the price of cheap is a monoculture. The hell with that.
California citizens have rights that are being denied in other states.
The wealthy may not care, but their wives and children might get in a pickle that money can't buy their way out of. "Hey, I'm male. Laws, rules and norms apply to others." [0]
There is no free lunch. The wealthy expect and demand not only a free lunch, but gigantic subsidies. It's part of "privilege", the most toxic and dangerous lie foisted on humanity.
I worked with people who exemplified privilege, as in.
I WANT IT ALL
I WANT IT FREE
I WANT IT NOW, and
I WANT IT SERVED ON A SILVER PLATTER
[0] Wilhoit's Law
> “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Wait ... it did.
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