On 2022-01-01 13:29, Simon wrote:
> Syeed Ali <syeedali@???> wrote:
>
>> I have a closed case yet light still leaks out of the back of my PSU.
>>
>> Numlock, desktop speaker, mouse DPI setting, monitors even when
>> asleep,
>> my KVM, and every single port on my USB hub all leak.
>
> And then someone invented blue LEDs and suddenly the dark is lost to
> little floodlights in the colour our night vision is most sensitive to
> - as every designer decided that it would be “cool” to have a really
> bright blue LED on an many devices as possible.
> Just don’t get me started on the id10t who thought making the sleep
> LED on the front of a MacBook Pro “throb” just to make it even more
> difficult to ignore.
>
> For the last 21 months, my office has been the spare bedroom. I have
> to switch everything off at the wall when it gets used as a bedroom.
> To your list add network switch - which flickers all the time with
> background traffic even when the computers are all off.
>
> It’s something when it’s possible to walk around the house lit only by
> little LEDs - even the smoke detectors are tiny little floodlights,
> thankfully only dim and green.
>
> Simon
>

That design allows the machine to constantly remind us who is boss. It
demands our attention and we behave for it. This is our collective
future of servitude unless we wake up from our stupor.

We are running out of time. The younger generation who has never known
anything else may or may not wake up to the fact that like worker bees
their only purpose is to tend the machine.

Machine 1 | Biological units 0

It's a good time to be old . . . and perhaps, unplug . . .

Musings on the machine to commemorate the irrelevant human date
designation for the start of the new year. Hellekin - remember him -
dated our early Devuan News relevant to the beginning of the Holocene
era. That would be a much more honest reference point . . .

golinux

PS. Credit to Eben Moglen who saw this coming 10 years ago. We have
arrived . . .
https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRequiresFreeMediaAndWhyFreeMedia