The DIY FOSS cyborg -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
Do you feel the allure of becoming a cyborg? Are you one of those people who loves computing, but hates what computing has become? Do you wish to become one with your computing environment, without having to give into an immersively curated dystopian corporate version of computing we experience today? Throw off the shiny shackles of Apple, dismiss the metaverse garbage Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell you. We are going for something simpler, something more powerful, something only beholden to you.
And also something a little bit clunkier. But in a good way. The way that installing your first Linux distro on that old laptop felt. Freedom, in a dorkier, clunkier, but more liberating sense.
My friends. That future is here. I have met the DIY FOSS cyborg. He lives not in an overly saturated 3d graphical environment, wears not an awkward bucket over his head. No, we are talking about a fulltime Linux and Guix and Emacs cyborg, living with an org-mode overlay over his eyes. The hacker's cyborg.
And lo, I bring you the good news: you too can become such a cyborg. The technology is here today! And it is far simpler, and far dorkier (in a delightful way). And you can have it. You too can become a DIY FOSS cyborg.
