The DU Lounge

Fucking AI, fucking cell phones, fucking cars, fucking televisions... they can all go to hell.

I first signed onto the internet in the late 'seventies. I've blacklisted so much of the modern internet that my browser looks like it's stuck in 1998.

My computers run Linux. I use the command line a lot, just as I did back in BSD and PDP-11 times. Quitting Windows 98SE for Linux was awesome, my fingers remembered stuff and mostly everything "just worked."

My 20+ year old truck is mostly analog.

My television doesn't have any channels. It plays DVDs and two or three no-advertising streaming services. That's all it does. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast. My television remote control doesn't have any numbers on it.

My cell phone is the most primitive 4GLTE flip phone model I could find a new replacement battery for. Some days I just want to smash my cell phone or throw it in the ocean but that would be bad for the environment and I'd just have to find another one. I probably wouldn't have a cell phone at all but it seems to be a requirement if you want to be considered a fully functional 21st century adult.