i don't want smart appliances, smart cars, smart anything. I want items that are durable and can be repaired for a long time, products with lots of OPTIONS I can choose for accessibility, and products that don't dump features for shareholder greed. products that can be used by novices and products which can also be hacked by experts. modular, scalable, repairable, adjustable, human products.
@brent No. There’s been a very noticeable shift in design and manufacturing making #things cheaper. That optimisation for cost has decreased the utility of #things, their fixability. There maybe improvements (safety for example) but overall old repairable stuff is way more durable. Stuff that is contemporary and built well, repairable is multiples more expensive due to economies of scale optimised for cost. cc @senanthic
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I should see if I bothered writing down /why/ I bounced off of #OmniFocus 3 and settled on #Things (#ThingsApp? ugh. fucking cutesy anti-search-friendly names) years ago.
Cuz I sort of want to try OF4, but not if it retains whatever core issues I had with it, which meant Things (with its polished-but-limited feature set) was still better for my needs.
(Things is still fantastic, but dev is glacial & team clearly doesn't care about addressing the glaring UX issues that it does have…)
For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.
It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.
In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.
When I was a kid, my dad had a late-1960s flip alarm #clock that became #unreliable, losing random amounts of time daily. He replaced it with a newish-at-the-time LED clock.
I went to the basement, took the flip clock apart, figured out how it worked, moved every moving part in it, and put it back together. Basically knocking the accumulated dust out of the mechanism "fixed" it.
I've been hooked on #fixing#things ever since. It's great.
@sotneStatue same here. I was quite happy with using #Things for all my Todos but now with #Obsidian and great daily and meeting notes, adding action items to them makes so much sense.
Been using #grapheneos for about a week now and I just have to say WOW! I don't think I've ever had an experience on my phone that feels like I'm using my #Linux desktop/laptop. The amount of control this OS gives back to me that google and apple took away is staggering. I know no piece of tech is 100% #private or #secure . But damn is this close!
Years ago I loved both #Things by #CulturedCode and #OmniFocus. But (1) #OrgMode is more featureful out of the box, and (2) task/project management and notes workflows are the quintessential customize-to-the-nth-decimal-place kinda deal. Where #Emacs shines (provided you already have Emacs skills...).
I'm recently even using Org mode (with #TeXLaTeX and #Beamer export) gradually to replace #LibreOffice for authoring class slides and notes handouts. I basically live in Org buffers.
@thisismissem
Decades ago, I shared that ethical mindset, too.
And, to be honest, I still do share this point of view as an ideal approach to the world.
Meanwhile, life changed my mind (not really my attitude to these #things).
If it's possible, it will be done - so: be prepared and not astonished.
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