My humble setup, here I spend many hours of work, study and leisure
Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. So I simply show you where I spend many hours of my day. I love computers, since I was a kid, I grew up surrounded by old computers, which I assembled and disassembled like puzzles. At some point they started working, I looked at old magazines to understand a little. At that time, the Internet in Argentina for me was nothing more than a myth. A few years later, I was fully immersed in this wonderful world. Intel's Pentium technology with 3D acceleration and MP3 sound had arrived. I gaped at exhibitions and shops, and only got to use one (freely) when my uncle bought it. I was never a big car fan, but I still spent hours playing SEGA Rally. I often went to my aunt's house, stayed at her house to sleep. The new computer only increased my regular visits.
SEGA Rally Championship (1995) image by pinterest
Since I was a child, I had decided to learn and specialize in computing. At 12 years old, my high school classmates watched me type at lightning speed in amazement. I was always the favorite in every computer lab at every school I went to. At 15, I served my first client. Installing drivers on a Hewlett Packard cartridge printer. Those old egg-shaped ones with a plastic casing that became as old as parchment over the years. You saw them a lot on the street. The printer was once the great enemy of computing. A very expensive piece of junk. It was very frustrating to go to clients and tell them that their printer simply didn't work because they had left it for a few months. Spare parts and ink cartridges were expensive and the illegal ones didn't always work. I took them apart, soaked the heads in alcohol, but success was rare and taking a printer apart is a nightmare process.
I look at this picture and feel the sudden urge to hit it with a hammer Source
I had a little period of rebellion against Microsoft and Windows, I used several Linux distributions, it really is a nice system. But at that time it was quite unstable, which made it inefficient to work with. I also played games and many games only work on Windows. I have the firm opinion that Microsoft has digital humanity as a hostage and that it caused a lot of damage to contemporary computing. But this is for another post.
Cell phones, on the other hand, did not generate much fascination for me at the time. As a computer user, I knew the result. What later became “smartphones” did not take me by surprise. It was just the natural evolution of a small computer, with a flashlight. So I didn't get interested in them until a few years later. Although their cost made me choose between a powerful PC or a powerful phone. The decision was simple, really, with a mid-range phone my communication needs were more than satisfied. I only play, edit and read from my PC, the cell phone is for the street, music, answering and commenting on Hive and messaging. With Google Doc I write drafts that I then polish on the computer.
I think that both objects are essential for our daily life. Although I love technology, they are only powerful tools, what really matters is the use we give them. I practically do not use social networks and I avoid any consumption that could turn me into an addict.