  Something has been bothering me the past couple of months in reguards to my computing. Maybe it's because I don't have the unlimited access that I used to have. Maybe it is something to do with maturing that all computer geeks go through. I don't know. After today's events with bendy and all of the tweaking issues with rika over the past 5 months, I think I've come to conclusion that doing tweaking is no longer... fun.
I find myself looking more and more at pre-built machines, at software that Just Works TM and solutions that are there for work to get done; to encourage productivity. Does this mean that as I find myself increasingly interested in design and graphics that I will become less of a geek in the eyes of my peers simply because I don't want to dick around with things anymore? I still like to tinker, only on a machine that isn't an everyday machine (something I don't have and won't for awhile). I just don't have the desire to sit down and work my way through getting an OS or software to work with hardware or play around and swap hardware around all the time. Maybe it's because I "tasted the Apple" (punny? ) and it's been slowly infecting me like a virus. Mac people generally aren't tinkerers. They just want it to work and for the most part, if not always, it does. There's a lot to be said for that, especially for a platform that has a smaller footprint than Linux according to recent analysts. But today has just made me realise that hardware and OS tinkering just isn't something I want to do anymore.
I want to be productive. I want to be able to just do whatever it is that I want to do without having to worry about the platform I'm working on outside of the inevitable hardware failure. Could this be a continuation of when I dropped from 5 functional workstations, 1 laptop and 1 PDA to what now amounts to 1 workstation in the US and a laptop-turned-server-until-she-dies? Was the consolidation more maturity than it was just a want to have some spare cash? I'm rambling, but really.. have I matured in my way of thinking or am I just becoming less of a geek?
I'm at a loss of what to think and since it's difficult to look at one's self to figure this out, I pose the question to you (whoever is reading this). Mood: Confused Tune: Madonna : Die Another Day 
