

My partner runs Windows, I run two separate distros not by choice but by driver support. I was messing around on her computer the other day, had to pull something up. I was startled by just how sluggish the entire experience was. Mind you, one of the distros I run is a destroyer of ram. I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I was hanging out on a computer with fifty viruses and the pop-ups were coming for me.
I was thinking of this very thing the other day. Because I was thinking about Solar Punk, and the idealism that people will trade one set of talents for another. Yet in my head, I thought - once we started settling lands and owning things (basically transitioning to agrarian lifestyles) we left many of our egalitarian ways behind. I am not saying that communities that share can’t exist. I am just thinking about how security tends to come with a series of costs that many will labor their entire lives over just to have a sliver.
I am too tired to give a deeper read on the summary (I read it but things are flying from my head). I have just had so many conflicting thoughts as of late that I have been trying to move through. I think because often I love the ideal of equitable acts, but I do not understand how they can reasonably be applied en masse without large changes. Which I think is the hope of automation, but the reality tends to be much bleaker because capitalism.