Woodrow Wilder @ipslfn@twingyeo.kr

@ipslfn I want crepes now. Thanks!

My otouto is an artist, and only watching him I’ve understood how remote such people are from computers. Before I have already seen Japanese artists using Windows XP, where they haven’t installed or configured anything besides the program in which they do drawing.

From my perspective what they have on their desktops and how they manage them emerges that picture in my brain, where a perfectly drawn head of a girl has sticks for hands and legs and a cucumber for a body.

Otouto first installed Firefox, but one day later switched to Chrome, because he couldn’t switch the search engine. (There were four preinstalled ones in the FF settings, but no Google, and the idea of searching for it through the addons hasn’t come to him – and by his look I could tell, that he ain’t going to give Firefox a chance in the near future.) He never used an ad blocker, his browser window always flashes with bells and whistles, but he thinks, that this is okay.

I guess most people’s drawing, if shown to him, would raise in his head an unspoken question “people! have you even learned in school?”. The same feeling I get when I see a browser wihtout an uBlock or uMatrix, when I see poorly managed environment and services, that bear no purpose. However, there is a difference with that much more people use or even bound to use computers on a daily basis, than people, who draw and get to know about perspective, volumes, and work of light.

There is a certain type of literacy, that we do not teach, but which is as important as writing for everyone, who uses a computer.
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