Dana wrote on 12/17/18 at 01:36:25:Doesn’t anyone get the irony of where they’re posting? Without the internet there would be no Decware. The tube equipment that you relish wouldn’t exist because access to the tubes you champion over and over again on these forums wouldn’t be available. The place you post 1000s of times only exists because the owner choose ts forgo the luddite business model and grow a business based on global access to his products.
I’m really surprised that I haven’t heard all the benefits of a rotary dial phone yet. You know “All those buttons the world is doomed” talk or the “Where am I going and why am I in this hand basket?”
Sure the world is much more populated. Sure there are lots of very scary things out there and the internet allows access to our elections, our power plants and our youth but the internet is just a tool.
Use it don’t use it, call everyone on your land line tell them what you’re listening too but I’ve gone from a chuckle to a shake my head snicker.
I do have a quick question for Lon. How are bits from a transport different than bits from a modem before they feed the DAC?
I deleted an elaborate response to this and moved our conversation off the board.
I want to close my part of this discussion by saying I am not attacking the value of all computers and all of the internet, they're tools. But they are being used wrongly by many entities and endangering small business, global commerce, influencing our fragile (imo) democracy, and our private lives in negative manners. So other than vote for those who may address these matters with authority, what I can do is limit my usage of those as I see fit and I have been trying to implement that. That includes supporting businesses on the internet that I wish to such as Decware and others. I have simply been speaking of my own thoughts and intentions. I don't mean to discourage anyone else from using cell phones to their full potential, streaming music, etc.
I'm done talking about it. I'm sorry if I offended or bothered anyone yesterday. I was having a bad day having had earlier to listen while holding my tongue to one person vehemently denying science followed by another deeply convinced of and knee deep within a world of deceit and disinformation. Family and neighbor. ARGH. Made me frustrated and crankier than usual.
Listening to
Airto Moreira "Identity"