just watched dr strangelove, i want to talk about it noooww

[maks]

its funny to me that mac appeals to liberal bohemians but when it comes to "living minimalistic", mac is much more expensive - in the range of a few hundred dollars at least. That's beer and cigarettes and drugs for a few months for me

owning a computer is not 'living minimalistic'. Anyway their philosophy isn't minimalism so much as simple and uncluttered. They like to do things in software and eliminate hardware buttons, stuff like that. You have that luxury when you control both the os and the hardware it runs on.

[Plug Drugs]

owning a computer is not 'living minimalistic'. Anyway their philosophy isn't minimalism so much as simple and uncluttered. They like to do things in software and eliminate hardware buttons, stuff like that. You have that luxury when you control both the os and the hardware it runs on.

well, my computer substitutes any need for entertainment for me. I don't need to go to the movies or rent them; I don't need to buy CDs.
My computer has brought me so much more than any single <$1000 device could have brought me. I practically learned everything I know about drugs, pharmacology, and synthesis over the internet. If it weren't for dumb wikipedia articles, I would have never gotten into philosophy or psychology.
As far as minimalism goes, I imagine my life without a computer and I see me spending thousands of dollars a year on worthless shit to feel satasfied - the same type of useless shit that my computer brought me all on its own.