I see a number of responses about "I want less". I come at this from a different angle: I have been around. Like, a fair bit. Lived on a tropical island, transi

I see a number of responses about "I want less". I come at this from a different angle: I have been around. Like, a fair bit. Lived on a tropical island, transited the Arctic by ship, multiple multi-month stints away from wife and kids. I just submitted my travel estimate for this quarter, I have 9 trips. This quarter. And that's with pruning. Every time I go somewhere, something breaks. Not the machine, but some element of VPN, satcom, everything (i.e. no network, and definitely no internet), latency is insane, bandwidth is trash, whatever. I responded to Fukushima and my Cr-48 (the original chromebook for beta testers) became bookend despite having wifi and built-in 3G. I know my life is better with the machines and the networks. I mean, I have tested and lived that too many times. But there's definitely some (a lot of) love-hate in the relationship.