#Journal #Pilot
11.30.21 #article #blog #kfo #thisisthenew.me #hardware #holiday #family #journal
#triggerwarning
This piece is a mess with no editor to be found…
I’m continuing on with a trickle of discussion about Thanksgiving, then I blather on about computers.
This year there was less. I spent the same budget I usually do, but there was less bought, less cooked. For reference to the exact current events. The recession is picking up steam. Inflation is at 6.25%, shit is not going well if you have money saved. If you’re financing shit, whether it is a mortgage, or say a car-for a decade, you’ll be fine. Hell, these days people are borrowing money to gamble on the stock market, and to buy bitcoins.
The rules have been thrown out the window.
There are a lot of bad signs around.
I don’t know how it all goes down… I mean, it hasn’t happened yet.
I also bought an intel Mac. To be clear It is one year since Apple released the M1 processor
Apple in November 2020 released the first Macs with an Arm-based M1 chip, debuting new 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini models. In 2021, Apple added the M1 iMac and the M1 iPad Pro. The M1 chip has received rave reviews for its incredible performance and efficiency, and it is the culmination of more than a decade of Apple's work on chips created for the iPhone and the iPad. ∫source: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m1/
Previous to buying the MacBook For the sake of full disclosure, I bought the best portable that Apple had to offer, the sixteen inch MacBook Pro. It was a beast. I managed to keep it for 72hours, before sending it back.
I spent months wringing my hands about buying the 16”, then it took three days to realize it wasn’t for me.
#stopreading #gotonext
I’m in a weird place. I want a nice computer. I only every really seek out the computer that fits my needs. I’ve owned score of computers, only bought two, till now.
Computer 1 was an Acer Chromebook(A spitting knockoff of a MBP 15”), not my proudest moment. It served its purpose and drove me into the arms of a VPN, and left me about two streets up from the dark web, where I live now, hidden, sorta…
Computer 2 was the aforementioned 16” MBP. The cost was extraordinary, and thus I spent 6 months building up to buy a computer and kept it for 72 hours.
I don’t care what something costs if I love it, but I want to be knocked out, otherwise I’m very concerned about the costs. I was concerned about the cost to performance ratio. I was not knocked out.
The past always wants to eats its way to the future.
#rightnow #on the nose
I am on the phone with Deja. As this post lives and breathes, we’re in year two of the pandemic. It is going terrible, the worst combination of “back to normal”, meets “we’re not in Kansas anymore”.
Deja and I are also in year two of working at Reach. This experience is great, a beautiful swan song (?), to my life in IT. One last chance maybe to support an organization and get back behind a computer.
I’ve had a good run. I’m tired of working. I hope I was able to get free and I’m reading this post from some shady spot.
