Thomas 🔭🕹️
Highly recommend not to identify yourself with any technology.
Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, bicycles, cars, video games, old computers, photography or Hi-Fi equipment.
If someone says something bad about it (doesn’t matter if true or not) and you feel personally attacked—take a step back and think long and hard about your feelings.
Can you be “into” something? Yes, of course. But don’t lose yourself.
Thomas 🔭🕹️
@foone hey I’m pixel art
Foone🏳️⚧️
@thomasfuchs *looks at icon* whoops
datarama
@thomasfuchs When I was a teacher, and I did the introductory session for the operating systems course, I'd sometimes troll my students a little about just this.
Show of hands! Who in here is a MacOS fan? (a few hands shoot up)
Who's a Windows guy? (a lot of hands shoot up)
Who's a Linuxhead? (one or two hands)
...and who thinks it's silly to base your personal identity on a piece of software? (sheepish laughter)
(I fell into that trap when I was young and really, *really* liked nerding around with the Amiga. The aftermath of Commodore's collapse made me think very hard about that.)
Thomas 🔭🕹️
@tinmouth that’s a healthy way to look at it
James Tinmouth
@thomasfuchs I don't feel personally attacked when someone says something bad about something I love. But I do know they're totally wrong 😂
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