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So…I’m still using Arch.  But really now there is a new roadblock to the distro-hopping adventure I was having….

dun dun DUNNNNN….  I got an iPhone.  Well, not (entirely) by choice–work paid for it, and there are not really any Linux-based options available to us at the moment that are viable.  So, I have an iPhone.
It is neat and everything, but I really cannot stand how limiting Apple is with everything.  For instance, iTunes is THE ONLY software that can be used to sync, copy music, etc anything on the iPhone (or iPods).  This is crazy.  #1 it is a pain in the ass, especially since I do not have a windows computer in my house (We have 3…all using Linux operating systems).  Luckily (?  …not sure if that is the right word), I use Windows at work, so I use my computer there to sync.

Anyway…Apple is to blame for holding up site content, because now that I have said iPhone I am not on the computer nearly as much as before.  Now, given I haven’t been on the computer much at all in the past year or two compared with 3-8 years ago (before I had kids), but now I am on here even less.
The iPhone is just convenient.  I can check my email wherever I am, and stay up to date.  I use nambu and facebook apps to keep up-to-date with my social networking addictions.   For everything that I do regularly, there is some kind of app in the app store.  A lot of these are free, I haven’t really endeavored to get a non-free app (aside from a couple of games that I have gotten– $0.99 each).

So by that token, I have less of a need to be on the computer.  Web browsing and like tasks are a pain due to the small screen, though, so for things like reading news and making updates on here I make it much easier on myself to use a computer.

The iPhone may be convenient, but it is not free (as in freedom).  One of these days I will get an Open Source/Linux based phone/mobile device.  For now, though, it will have to do.

Site update delays and all.