Hello, let me introduce myself: I am Luddite. I fell into the Anomalous Abyss of Curmudgeonly Luddites around the time when "Personal Computer" was replaced by "Personal Device" and I am proud of this. At least as proud as when I earned my Dolphins and. later, was successfully initiated as a Chief Petty Officer. Hear me growl.
Hello, let me introduce myself: I am Luddite. I fell into the Anomalous Abyss of Curmudgeonly Luddites around the time when "Personal Computer" was replaced by "Personal Device" and I am proud of this. At least as proud as when I earned my Dolphins and. later, was successfully initiated as a Chief Petty Officer. Hear me growl.
I am not afraid of technology or change. I don't think that one who fears technology can exist aboard a submarine at any time, especially when the boat goes deep (!) or the OOD orders Angles & Dangles when you're manning the Fairwater Planes. (If you're in The Know, you'll understand those terms.)
Cutting to the chase, I don't have a smart phone. I don't trust a "device" acclaimed to be smarter than the human owner/operator.
I subscribe to no "app". I have enough subscriptions to pay each month in order to continue my cell phone "service" and my use of FiOS. My cell provider does not provide me texting "service". In my mythology, a phone is a phone, to be used when I want to be available - not while driving my manual, five-speed Tacoma.
I subscribe to Substack only because I subscribe to The Bulwark.
I have never cared anything about Twitter, and even less so now. I think of myself as something of a writer; I accept the fact that my opinions and writings are of little consequence to others.
Obviously, I am not a Very Important Person who must be constantly available to everyone at any time. (Oh, my growls were important to others - the ops and analysts in my watch section - but those days are past. Long past.)
I don't argue when you, JVL, about any of your points. I just suspect that there are (still) a few of us Curmudgeonly Luddites here and elsewhere who consciously eschew concern over how many "followers" anyone garners to their posts on social media or what An Idiot does to Twitter.
Don has captured my situation perfectly - and described it better than I could. I'm 76 and use email to communicate with family members, friends, and professional associates. I sympathize with the "professional writers" Jonathan is talking about - i.e., the people trying to find a way to make a living with what (and how) they write. It seems to me the Bulwark found a pretty good way to attract paying customers to itself - by making the free pieces so good that online readers would be motivated to move to a paying subscription -- but apparently that's not a good enough business model to establish and maintain a going concern?
Hello, let me introduce myself: I am Luddite. I fell into the Anomalous Abyss of Curmudgeonly Luddites around the time when "Personal Computer" was replaced by "Personal Device" and I am proud of this. At least as proud as when I earned my Dolphins and. later, was successfully initiated as a Chief Petty Officer. Hear me growl.
I am not afraid of technology or change. I don't think that one who fears technology can exist aboard a submarine at any time, especially when the boat goes deep (!) or the OOD orders Angles & Dangles when you're manning the Fairwater Planes. (If you're in The Know, you'll understand those terms.)
Cutting to the chase, I don't have a smart phone. I don't trust a "device" acclaimed to be smarter than the human owner/operator.
I subscribe to no "app". I have enough subscriptions to pay each month in order to continue my cell phone "service" and my use of FiOS. My cell provider does not provide me texting "service". In my mythology, a phone is a phone, to be used when I want to be available - not while driving my manual, five-speed Tacoma.
I subscribe to Substack only because I subscribe to The Bulwark.
I have never cared anything about Twitter, and even less so now. I think of myself as something of a writer; I accept the fact that my opinions and writings are of little consequence to others.
Obviously, I am not a Very Important Person who must be constantly available to everyone at any time. (Oh, my growls were important to others - the ops and analysts in my watch section - but those days are past. Long past.)
I don't argue when you, JVL, about any of your points. I just suspect that there are (still) a few of us Curmudgeonly Luddites here and elsewhere who consciously eschew concern over how many "followers" anyone garners to their posts on social media or what An Idiot does to Twitter.
Anyway, 'Nuff Said. Cheers!
Don has captured my situation perfectly - and described it better than I could. I'm 76 and use email to communicate with family members, friends, and professional associates. I sympathize with the "professional writers" Jonathan is talking about - i.e., the people trying to find a way to make a living with what (and how) they write. It seems to me the Bulwark found a pretty good way to attract paying customers to itself - by making the free pieces so good that online readers would be motivated to move to a paying subscription -- but apparently that's not a good enough business model to establish and maintain a going concern?
Мой брат! Привет.
Christopher, I'm 71; we're "kin", probably in several ways.
Cheers.