Fascinating how far technology use and philosophy has diverged between generations.

I'm old school and local first. I don't own a smart phone and I host my own music, video and I read real books and ebooks I download and read from an off line eReader.

Then I compare with the modern man who streams his music, video, buys audio books as a service, uses only web browser applications, and then bitterly complains when the internet goes down, or when the prices of his apps go up, or when his favourite music or movie disappears from the service provider and so on and so on.

So not only a complete loss of control and computing autonomy, but also a financial drain as well when counting the cost of all the apps and services.

Mean while, I'll happily chug along, local first, and if the internet doesn't work, at most my web browsing and email suffers, but since I do have my reference libraries, documentation and interpreters available locally, I can still get work done until the internet comes back up.