Hardware

My car and my phone get along so well that I feel like a third wheel, and I often feel like they'd be happier without me.  Am I an obstacle that the tools have to work around?  I recently found this live recording of "Hardware" from 2021.  Some things I said about hardware and software in 2021 now sound outdated, but the main message still comes through, and this is one of my favorites of all of these I've written.  Special thanks to the one person who kept laughing while I was saying this.