I worry sometimes I just come across as an irascible old person who just doesn't use newfangled technology. My real particular goal I guess is that when I talk about using some or other thing that's fallen out of favour is that it's a reminder that whatever abusive tech monopolies aren't inescapable - that we had a time without them and can imagine a new time without them. Not that all new things are bad, but that we have more opportunities open to us before and after.
The other thing I suppose is that the ability to do something in a way "dies" when you don't have people around you doing it. Like, managing a local music library of things you own was completely normal - "tech illiterate" people did it. It seems hard now for people who haven't done it because there's fewer people around you doing the same things, so you have fewer people to ambiently get knowledge from or who could help you. If I do things in maybe a weird way for today, that opens a door for someone else to try it too.
