I unGoogled my PC and got a boost in speed

[lostnfound]

8. I get it. A family member has recently talked to me about Linux

and my whole family regularly bemoans the constant time suck from advertising. In our personal lives, we have been acclimated to almost unlimited advertising in all forms (phone calls, texts, website interruptions, billboards, gas pumps, textbooks, product placements, sponsorships of stadiums, and of course, radio and TV); the very idea of ‘noncommercial’ anything is almost seen as unamerican.

I remember the innocence of my own childhood where schools and churches were an ad-free zone; ads were small things inside the newspaper or separate sections - not on 1A; and people were a bit more respected as citizenry and customers; not ‘consumers’ and guinea pigs.