Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes To : boraxman From : Nightfox Date : Sat Apr 16 2022 11:07:55 Re: Re: SSH on BBSes By: boraxman to Nightfox on Sat Apr 16 2022 06:56 pm bo> The fact that many people don't know how to use them, and can only bo> "consume content" on a smartphone, is to me, evidence of how tech has bo> taken a turn for the worse. There are piles of electronic, hazardous bo> landfill for each person, and the result is tech used mostly for inane bo> WE have no autonomy, no knowledge of how to computer, instead the masses bo> lurch from controlled solution to controlled solution. It's as if all the bo> work creating solutions in the last 40 years is for nothing, because no bo> one can use them, only the latest web-based cloud tool. bo> The vision of Bill Gates was a bunch of dumb consumers, and that is what bo> we have. People who just have entertainment devices, but can't make them bo> do ANYTHING except the apps that Apple/Google let into their ecosystem. In a way, it seems a bit bizarre to me that still a lot of people don't have or don't know how to use computers these days. It seemed like computers were booming, especially in the late 90s to 2000s, and it seemed like more and more people were learning how to use computers (as people had to do) to do their work. Word processing software and printers had replaced hand-written documents (I used my computer a lot in high school and college to write reports), financial tracking can be easily done on a computer, email and instant messengers made it easy to contact people, etc.. I figured computer skills would be fairly common now, but I guess not. bo> run their business off a Faceberg page, and then are at the mercy of a bo> company which can cut them off (and Faceberg did that in Australia when bo> they had a spat with the government). Computers thrown into landfill, Faceberg? Do you mean Facebook? Or is Faceberg something different? Nightfox --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137) .