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as a geek i tend to impose my choices upon other people. being the only one in my immediate environment who actually follows tech news, i know what’s best for your PC. really, nobody around me knows about android; the iphone still wins thanks to marketing; nobody around has figured what twitter is about. thus it was interesting to come back to Mauritius and find my home PC still running the software i was fond of 4 years back. And my lil bro is actually fond of them. he’s even installed them on my parents’ laptops.

here’s the picture: google pack, google toolbar, avast, jetaudio, spyware doctor. on my side, it’s something else now. i’ve caught the itunes bug, browser toolbars now just waste screen estate, the google pack makes no sense anymore, microsoft security essentials is pretty robust, i rarely turn on IE. i guess i’m a lifehacker addict!

on every single PC i’ve come across these days, i’ve had a tendency to do 2 things. first, run pcdecrapifier and second, replace any free protection suite with lightweight microsoft security essentials.

coming back to find computers running my old choices feels like i’ve left a legacy, a software legacy. it’s creepy. what’s even creepier is people just accept it when i change their computer settings. they know i’m doing the right thing. they trust me…

my elder bro calls me ‘cyber boy.’ recently i’ve earned another name: ‘shri satya cyber baba.’ I’d better shut up and accept it.

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