[rektide]

> However as I've gotten older, I've learned that it's incredibly freeing to at least partially let go of some of your data and not worry if it gets lost or erased.

I'm ok with people opting to let it go.

What's uncool is how much effort it takes, how ridiculous it is to opt to do anything other than let it go. To marshal oneself & one's data should not be a huge sprawling saga, fought for tooth & nail every step of the way. Resisted at every step.

This is not an ok condition for humanity to try to live under. As Geohot said[1], we are coming to live in an eternal prison. Providing the advice to let it go, find happiness in these conditions, is what I hear again and again and again on this site, and I'm mad. I'm mad people advocate for giving up agency, will, control, for what feel like the most core genuine & true pieces of humanity. I'm ok with the option, absolutely, but only as a choice. And today there is no choice at all.

[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/01/18/techn...