Mason Loring Bliss
Unix geek. Thought leader for a small flock of back-yard hens and assorted wildlife. Technically correct.
Fan of #FreeBSD, #Debian, #Slackware, #C, #Lisp, #Scheme, #Perl. Sometimes-lapsed #Quaker. I try to be socially and environmentally responsible. I keep #chickens! (Chickens are friends.) #COVID cautious and I #mask. Born on #Wampanoag land; living on #Abenaki land.
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@zedgeist How about rent of things, as opposed to rent of living space? I’m specifically thinking of the hardware I’m renting for this Fediverse server. A network connection, power, and cooling come with it. In my view this is more acceptable than having to rent a house or car. (Related topic: is having a car moral? Related to that: Is there a moral argument to be made for our against living away from a population center? And related to that: why the Hell do people refuse to wear masks during a pandemic?)
Is my renting that hardware more paying for a service than straight rent? There’s certainly the aspect of my not being able to afford the hardware cost up-front and just renting space, network, and power.
Ideally I’d just run the server in my cellar, but I live in the woods and trees fall on the power lines all too often. (Loop to the question of the morality of living away from population centers.)