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Depressingly i think sharing computers at least in the western world has become a thing of the past. At the very least, sharing your main form of computing.
by bloqs 2y ago
Depressingly i think sharing computers at least in the western world has become a thing of the past. At the very least, sharing your main form of computing.
- throwaway87483 2y agoWe're sharing a computer as we speak.
- xcdzvyn 2y ago[dead]
- chrisweekly 2y agoRight, in the sense of "the network is the computer". Tangent: one of the most talented engineers I ever met gave an amazing (tho sadly company-private, unrecorded) talk about how the OS was his IDE. Kind of analogous... anyway, I like this type of re-framing or meta-level-shifting.
- gjvc 2y agohe must be getting a bit twitchy lately then
- nunez 2y agoUsing computers in general outside of work is quickly becoming a thing of the past too.
- sim7c00 2y ago?? not all households have money to buy pc for everyone. for phones maybe (also less common outside of rich countries), but definitely not true for pc platform, for most of the world actually.. there a lot of pcs for the family still.
- pjmlp 2y agoIn poorer countries, the phone/tablet is the only "PC" they have, and I guess that was the point being made.