Comment by bigpeopleareold

Computing and what is enabled by computing are different things. I like the computing aspect and continue to do so in my older age even if the interests change, but I also like a lot of stuff enabled by computing. However, the burden remains on me and everyone to take things for what they are. Computing and networking enabled broader access to literature and information, so it is fair to have this analogy: if there a few bad books, particularly ones that create undesirable impulses, I shouldn't hate all books or the printing press that made them. I am not going to associate computing or computers to bad actors or that "computing" for the 2020s means consuming endless timeline feeds. I have accounts on those platforms, but staring at those things too long feels like using a device for the sake of using a device, instead of computing for the sake of computing (writing a program to do a novel thing or finding ways to save old hardware to do 'modern' workloads are things that I think in terms of "computing".)