I Need a Mac

By
Taylor
Published: July 28, 2008Posted in: Page BTags:

Chris Baskind says Twitter deserves to die, and Jesse Stay is also taking leave of Twitter. They’re both right. We deserve better.

While Twitter is far from the best of any possible world, it’s working ~barely~ for me right now. I completely agree with Jesse Stay, and would join him in his Twitter Exodus, but that I have so many other software and hardware problems to deal with. I’m already one year into the life of this Dell Inspiron 1501. It’s so frustrating to use that I’m starting to revert to pen and paper. 

Jesse Stay recommends Friend Feed and Identi.ca.

But it’s a delicate balance here on this machine, Dell/Vista’s hideous progeny. I’m reluctant to install anything else, ever. Every decision, from installs & uninstalls, to simply clicking on programs on the desktop, or even in my Firefox toolbar, tips the balance in unexpected ways. I’m just trying to hobble along. ~which makes the ridiculously large check i sent dell last week to pay off this piece of shit sting all the more~ My wi-fi card could crap-out at any time, and I’ll be suddenly no longer on the Internet.

Vista tells me every 15 minutes that Windows has blocked some start-up programs NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE START-UP. Clicking on that little window does nothing to help, and the blocked programs don’t even show up on the list of blocked programs, so I can’t unblock them. Clicking on pretty much anything can start me watching the light in the purple donut. Once the purple donut starts, there’s no telling how long it will last, so there’s nothing to do but wait. Or do a hard restart. ~which will be six minutes from hitting the button to start-bar visibility. still another 2 or 3 before i can do anything.~

Jing wants to update itself every two days. Twhirl updates way too often, too. I’ve also given up on Flock & CoComment. ~co-comment because it’s unreliable and flock because too many .exe files on this machine makes it even worse~

Oh, and my processor just overheats at least once a day and the machine goes black — plays dead.

My relationship with Bill Gates has left me with no fight in me.

So perhaps part of the reason so many of us put up with Twitter is that we’ve come to have such low expectations. We’re used to it.

 

About the Author

I'm Taylor. This is my classroom. There used to be a "real" teacher behind this blog, but she nagged me all the time about not saying this and not saying that. ~all she ever did was type anyway, since my fingers are stuck together~ So I've taken over. Yes, I'm an imitation Barbie knock-off doll. What of it? Barbie's got nothing on me! Let me take you to school.