Posted by alexandra_k on February 27, 2014, at 23:50:19
In reply to Re: deep breaths..., posted by alexandra_k on February 27, 2014, at 22:22:31
i started to forget that about mac. they are the lesser of the evils.
google wants me to be... a socialite. a teenager. it wants to give me social features and social functionality that i simply don't want / need. no, worst than that, it forces it's ideology upon me. it will not let me opt out.
i wanted my phone to be a work device. remember the days of those PA devices? that is what i wanted my phone to me. an alarm is handy. the ability to set different notifications for different incomings (people, emails, messages, etc) is handy... the ability to take text and phone notifications. to set alarms for calendar events etc etc etc etc.
i'm a minimalist. i don't want junk on it. i feel ambivalent about the whole gmail 'never junk anything ever' thing... the infinitely expanding inbox... only insofar as it takes longer and longer to trawl through all the crap that goes in the incoming. so here's a thought - lets divide things off. lets have a 'social' tab and a 'promotions' tab. no: here's a thought: the promotions are: spam. call them what they are... junk. trash. i'm capable of seeking that information if i require it. foisting it upon me unsolicited is... an invasion. sneaking it in behind the scenes (making devices run slower, junking up systems) makes me angry. i need a new device for no other reason that you introduced a whole bunch of sh*t i don't need that you will not let me opt out of that either renders what i had too slow / incapable (so it will not work) or i lose functionality (for basic tasks) by opting out.
busy busy work. and some segment of the population get richer... and my life... is made more painful by these things. not less. it isn't helpling. it is hurting. what the f*ck is up with that? so many people in the world 'helping you i am you ungrateful little bitch' NO YOU AREN'T YOU ARE MAKING THINGS WORSE
sigh.
the device is already massively junked up with samsung / google products that i can't opt out of... i wish i knew enough to be able to do simple things with linux. sigh.
i'm not entirely sure what to say... i've just realised my main google email address... is... unweildy. too much spam incoming. i need to simplify. i'll start afreash. only... i've already polluted the device with providing it information about previous gmail accounts.... so it's started to do weird things... it remembered a (non gmail email) address i had years ago... when i was in the US. i didn't even remember that... holy sh*t. it is autosynching to a whole bunch of stuff i don't want / need...
mac is getting worse. perhaps its current mission is to remain the lesser of all evils.
heres's a thought: if you have a problem with google... what are going to do about it? google that? if you complain... do you think you might find a community of complainers? how? by google? i think there should be some kind of... freedom of information... that is... not the slave of advertising or... dollars to be made. i'm not entirely sure that there can be. it makes me awful sad.
i have this sense of doom about where we are headed. in the not so distant future, i mean. things really going kaboom. we put everything in the clouds and then... poof. and we're f*ck*d. all the fears we had about the millenium... seem quaint. we've only put more in the clouds... and more...
i am frightened.
it is very... big brother. it doesn't matter so long as you dno't rock the boat. but if you do rock the boat... people have the power to ... annihilate you. render you non-existent as a person. its... as simple as not giving you a working phone number / a field that is accepted in forms. if you deny that to a person do you have any idea how much that f*cks them up? what they can no longer do? and... so on... and so on...
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