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> Changing your tires and doing an oil change also sucks, not doing it will suck way more in the long run.

Even for those people who feel the "meat-mecha" disconnection, the mecha benefits from maintenance.

"For Case, who’d lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he’d frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh." -- Neuromancer, 1984 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/293994/neuromancer-b...