There is something liberating about having had the hard drive crash.
I had already been moving music off the hard drive and onto USB sticks; had been considering deleting all the porn off the computer and, outside of photos that were taken using this laptop, and thus resided in the "webcam" folder, there was nothing on my drive that can't be found online and replaced. Even the best of those photos found their way onto this blog or onto my Facebook page, or were sent in private messages.
Even the latest music that Jacob has shared with me is still on Google Drive and I can have it back in my new audio editor (downloading now) with a few clicks of the mouse. I had moved all the old music onto the desktop computer which I use the monitor of as a photo display, with pictures randomly changing every 10 seconds or whatever. All of those pictures, along with the music, were saved from the disk crash.
It is said that people who have lost their phones these days have become like fish out of water. They have nothing to do with their hands, they find themselves reaching for the non existent device whenever they need to think about anything new that they might encounter. What is that? ...well, let me Google it...oh yeah, that's right, I can't Google it; I lost my phone...
They are missing out on the whole world; out of touch with the reality of their hundreds of friends...
Right now, I am downloading a new operating system. I suppose being on this blog is hindering the progress of that to some degree, as these blog posts auto-save every 20 seconds or whatever I have it set to.
The dialogue box is telling me I have an hour and 13 minutes left on the download (but it had been telling me 37 minutes before I started editing this).
Oddly enough, I find myself in the same boat as the guy who lost his phone because I had the notion to call my mom and chat while the download was going on; but had to catch myself before I dialed the phone -I'm using the hot spot on it to download Ubuntu Studio; making a phone call would sever the connection...
It has been a great blessing to have unlimited data through the government phone. I suppose it is a public service to those of us who are struggling through the pandemic to be able to shelter in place and watch Youtube night and day.
Or, the cynical might say that it is a way to push propaganda upon us through our phones. The "free" unlimited data has to come through Google, installed on an Android running phone; and through the T-Mobile network...
So, the framework for censorship and the mind controlling of us are in place.
Unless acted upon, the phone will greet you every morning with the latest "news" from MSN. So, essentially Bill Gates and company will be keeping us all informed, for free, every minute of every day; unless we lose our phones, but, that would be ...unthinkable....
So, with Ubuntu Studio, I will be getting a whole new DAW (digital audio workstation) in the form of Ardour5, which is like Audacity but has even more bells and whistles and uses the "Jack" (Jack audio control kit) which takes maximum advantage of the "low latency" kernel that Ubuntu Studio runs on top of. After all, that flavor of Linux is optimized for audio/video work, and has tools for doing 3 dimensional animation and basically anything you might see in a movie theater can be created at home using the same software. I feel like a laggard for not having little animated cartoons running around in my music videos.
So, strike a blow for The Uncluttered Life
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