AND WORKING AND LOVING AND HATING AND CLEANING AND RESTING AND DYING AND LIVING AND
There is this urge. Once you feel the banality of life it swells up. You long for distraction, spectacle. You long for that numbing feeling of information overload that forces you to forget all your needs and that makes you immensely focused. You long for that moment when your mind finally escapes the boundaries of the here and now and goes to that magical place where time is forgotten. You long to start over, to be away, to be fulfilled. Your body remains passive while the mind is being stimulated by a bright and seemingly endless world. Computer and brain are performing a unique symbiosis: the computer would do nothing without an operator and an operator can do nothing thanks to the computer.
At first i wanted to put links to GIMP and LIBRECAD and other useful open source tools, but it feels a bit unnecessary.
SO MAYBE JUST SOME INFO FROM THE
DEFECTIVE BY DESIGN WEBSITE
Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits.
If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.