I think I don't dream so much of a computer. Modern machines are pretty dreamy,to be honest. Sure, I wax mystical of the old days, but I also know how absolute

I think I don't dream so much of a computer. Modern machines are pretty dreamy,to be honest. Sure, I wax mystical of the old days, but I also know how absolutely constricting those old days were in terms of capability that I just take completely for granted today. My iMac at home has 72GB of RAM, TBs of storage, most, though not all SSD. It has a screen comparable to a drive in theater. I have Time Machine to keep me out of trouble. Dropbox to squirrel things away off my machine. I have BackBlaze to save me from a utter catastrophe. Both require pretty much zero thought or maintenance. I have amazing facilities at my fingertips. The idea that I have something as extraordinary as Postgres sitting idle in the background just waiting for a muse to strike me is amazing. I come from a time when having access to an SQL DB was a Big Deal. I still yell at it. It still gasps and wheezes at times. I think the I/O subsystem on the Mac has more interactive impact than it should. The machine beachballs when an external drive wakes up. C'est la vie. What I would like, is connectivity. That is, I have "good" residential internet. Solid download bandwidth, "good enough" upload bandwidth. But it's just a consumer. I don't have a passion for having an actual presence "on the information superhighway", but, like having Postgres just sitting there idle, I'd like to be able to have the whimsy to do so. I could just get a VPS, or whatever. Which really brings up the salient point. Exposing a machine to the wild, wild, net is "dangerous". Not to be done blindly or casually. I wish that weren't the case. As Sun Microsystems used to say: "The network is the computer". But the network is dangerous. My dream computer would be able to live in a safer place.