{"id":1342,"date":"2012-01-23T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/01\/the-disneyfication-of-tech-can-suck-my-balls\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:21:22","slug":"the-disneyfication-of-tech-can-suck-my-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/01\/the-disneyfication-of-tech-can-suck-my-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"The disneyfication of tech can suck my balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Winer talks about it<\/a> for the web, and I think the same is happening on the hardware side.<\/p>\n

When I came back in September in Paris, I powered back on my network drive and nothing happened. Not a single light, no spinnin\u2019. I thought \u201coh yeah, those shitty power supply, I guess I\u2019ll have to change it\u201d. Changed it, nothing. At that point I had two options:<\/p>\n

– send the network drive to LaCie to fix it.<\/p>\n

– open the damn enclosure to see if the standard hard-drive inside is working or if the enclosure died.<\/p>\n

I knew about the second option because I\u2019m used to computer technology but searching the web 20 minutes gives you the answer too. FYI.<\/p>\n

The -terrible- support tells me that I have to send my network drive back and that they will fix it. However, all my data will be erased<\/strong>. Because they simply format the disc and change the enclosure. They don\u2019t even bother.<\/p>\n

Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. No.<\/p>\n

\"Dead<\/a>
I guess I will not hear your dead ass anymore, blue HAL.<\/em><\/p>\n

I opened the enclosure with my legendary screwdriver skills (four or five screws to unscrew, insane), put the hard-drive in a 20 bucks SATA enclosure which is as hard as putting two bricks of Lego together. It\u2019s so hard and complex to do that an 8 year old could do it.  I switched on the all thing, the hard-drive is fine. The network enclosure somehow had died.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t that pissed because I wasn\u2019t going to loose anything really important or a massive amount of data (maybe 100 Gb with 40% already backed up). I was pissed that the \u201cservice\u201d from the company was to erase my data and not give a shit about me. Guys, we don\u2019t buy storage to have storage, we buy storage to put stuff in it. So you need to care about it too.<\/p>\n

Of course, opening the enclosure voided the guaranty but I had all<\/em> my data back and that\u2019s what I wanted.<\/p>\n

I hate this trend where \u201cthey take care of you\u201d<\/em> which means that you just get so stupidly scared that you don\u2019t even do something as simple as opening with a screwdriver a fucking box. Don\u2019t you ever tell me you are a geek or a nerd if the only thing you do in front of defective computer stuff is to go whine to a store with your \u201cbroken\u201d device. <\/p>\n

It makes people believe that computers are stuff made of Angel\u2019s sweat and powered by God\u2019s blood. So here\u2019s the truth: COMPUTERS ARE DUMB MACHINES WITH SCREWS AND ARE VERY STURDY AS LONG AS YOU DON\u2019T IMMERGE THEM IN THE WATER OR JUMP ON THEM. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s so easy today. It\u2019s never been that easy to change parts on computers, thanks to solid standards like USB or SATA and something that we don\u2019t talk about: the incredible Taiwan\u2019s engineer’s work of unification, security and simplification of motherboards, chipsets etc. Mad props to these men and women. So much has been done for us.<\/p>\n

20 years ago you had to read a shitty English translation of instructions to move a damn jumper on a motherboard from J1 to J3 to just be able to use a hard-drive on another machine. And maybe it wasn\u2019t J1 because the 1 was actually a badly written 2.<\/p>\n

It is so easy now and yet, all-in-one computers are spreading, where if a single thing goes wrong or that you simply want to update a part, you have to go to the middleman and get on your knees. \u201cOh lord, please save him!!!! PLEASE\u201d. Well, no.<\/p>\n

People often compare that with cars and garages. You never fix your car yourself today, you go to a garage. It\u2019s not even an option these days. But what people miss is that a car is not a computer. It\u2019s big, dirty, inconvenient to operate, you need special tools. Here, I\u2019m talking about a simple box with four effing screws. Opening it and taking care of it saved my data, which was the goal. No car has your photos or anything personal. If your library in the living room needed some fixing you wouldn\u2019t ship the all thing. You would fix it or put your books on the side and buy new furniture if the wood is that rotten.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about saving money -I had to buy another network drive at the end- it\u2019s about freedom and trusting yourself. Doing it instead of waiting for it, avoiding responsibilities and complaining about support.<\/p>\n

In the computer and hardware world, we\u2019re giving up on being adults at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Winer talks about it for the web, and I think the same is happening on the hardware side. When I came back in September in Paris, I powered back on my network drive and nothing happened. Not a single light, no spinnin\u2019. I thought \u201coh yeah, those shitty power supply, I guess I\u2019ll have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}