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~ going offline movie |
A man logs in to the internet one day only to find obnoxious system updates and software updates. Instead of getting work done he is busy clicking "update now" and "farting around" with lame updates.
He starts visually calculating how much time he wastes updating his PC and wonders what value any of these updates serve? How has his computer actually improved in the last 10 years? Are the updates mostly ones that do not offer any actual new service to him or new functions that he actually makes use of?
He takes a bold move and decides to go offline. He uses an operating system stuck at a certain point, and then goes as far as buying a server farm from archive.org which is a copy of the internet, stuck in time. He will now live offline, with access to one internet that no longer updates: an archive. He will use an operating system stuck in time - no more operating system updates.
This will free him, so he can get work done. Is he addicted to the updates? Will he turn on his computer and be waiting to see an update window pop up, like a text message from a friend would send adrenaline through your spine?
He moves to a location where he is self sustaining, using solar and other energy. He really goes offline.. Off the internet, off grid. All the time wasted on petty pesky little updates.. and for what? How much time could this energy be placed into doing real work?
An update only takes "a few minutes"... multiplied by how many updates, how many reboots, and how many new bugs with the new updates that are introduced? Updates often fix updates. A new update fixes the last update problem. Laughing out loud, is this update scam really necessary?
It would seem like a luddite in action, to turn off updates and do other things with your time. Once you have free time you may find you long for the update dopamine hit, or that you long for it for the first few weeks, then you realize how much time you are saving by just "saying no" to updates.
Updates run in the background... so why do they even cost us time? You sit there and watch it update, wait for the progress bar... because your brain is set on it and focused on it, no matter how much you try to ignore it.
What can a man do with an archived fixed in time; a local cache of the internet, that does not update? Like a fixed book that does not change. Quite a bit. He can't ask new questions but there are many old. Maybe in 7 years he will log back online again, sort of as a joke to see what updates he needs... but, he can always get offline updates, such as drive or walk into a town to find a paper newspaper, if those even exist any more. Or possibly turn on a Radio and listen to some news, but is that violating his policy of no updates? What classifies as an update and what is not? If he updates his solar panel to be more efficient, is this an update, even if he walks to the store to get it?
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