Anybody who spends much time with computers and electronics knows the frustration of which Charles Hugh Smith laments. From Smith at oftwominds.com:
We seem to have entered a world of anti-leisure and anti-productivity in which the unpaid “shadow work” demanded to keep all the complicated digital bits in motion obliterate our leisure and productivity.
Is your life as stupidly complicated as mine is? Of course it is unless you’ve withdrawn from all engagement with the digital realm and all devices containing digital components.
To rephrase the question: is anyone else a boiled frog like I am? Yes, a frog slowly boiled by the steadily increasing burdens of the “shadow work” required to maintain a life that has become, without us noticing, dependent on constant unpaid effort to keep all the stuff we now depend on functioning.
There are illusions galore in this mimicry of technological “empowerment:” the illusion that we “own” all the stuff that becomes a brick once a digital component fails or we fail to accept the new terms of service. The illusion that all these services and devices “free us” to enjoy more leisure. The illusion that performing all the unpaid shadow work needed to keep all the complicated stuff functioning is “worth it” rather than a form of digital servitude. The illusion that we have a “choice,” an illusion that’s broken once we “choose” to opt out of the shadow work and everything ceases to function.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
But, but, but, muh covenience?
We need a call center circle back Jen Slack moment for all where nothing gets done in an Idiocracy.
Or the guy that was punching the clown on zoom call, bwahaha, ease it down Horny, not for sharing.
I’m like Winston Smith, find the part where the camera doesn’t reach.
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