digital_star.sys 💾⭐ on Nostr: there is so much art to love out there and the ways in which people rebel and do ...

there is so much art to love out there and the ways in which people rebel and do things on their own terms are all we have and it is so, so depressing. just to get a computer that doesn't feel like the software is trying to kill you, you have to either:

- mod Windows to hell and back for 2 hours and hope it doesn't break

- learn an entirely new OS that's still difficult to navigate for new users

- spend four digits on an expensive, impossible-to-repair device

and that's not counting how little control you have over your phones, either, or the illusion of choice as Android and iOS start to look more and more identical with each passing day

we are constantly dependent on services rendered by and hardware manufactured by companies that have absolutely zero interest in making things last for a long time. everything - software, hardware, music, movies, stories, and with social media, even the concept of fucking basic communication - is fucking *disposable*

nothing lasts forever. this is true, and this is one of the many things that creates value in art. but it's another thing entirely to treat it with such little respect, and then to try and actively make the world hostile to anyone who tries to preserve that little bit of freedom and security