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"Nobody
wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine.
Including phones.
I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone! And Fairphone will
even sell you it with the Google-free Android fork e/OS.
But I’ve kept this phone to completely stock Android 15 — because I need
particular commercial apps, from the Google Play store, running on a standard
system, to do my stuff.
I could muck around with an alternate phone OS and hack the Play store onto it.
Or I could not do that.
I’m used to mucking around, I’ve been on Linux since 2005. It satisfies my
control addiction. And I was on FreeBSD before that.
I’ve got one Windows app I need (Kindle Previewer) that doesn’t work on Linux
in Wine. I run it in a Windows 10 virtual machine. As and when I need it.
You get a computer at all because you’ve got a job to do. So you get software
to do the job. And you need to run that software on a machine, and it’ll have
an operating system platform.
Neither the computer nor the platform are supposed to be noticed. If you notice
it, your work crashes to a halt.
If you’re making a platform and anyone notices it, you’ve already lost.
Platforms
must be transparent. All these platforms start transparent, then
some marketer needs some resume juice, they make the platform go NOTICE ME and
they think they’re the star of the show."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
