I've glibly used the 'cats vs dogs' scenario to describe gender differences sometimes. To me, canines are inherently masculine in nature, and felines are feminine. That makes the canine somewhat antagonistic to my own aesthetic, both physically and emotionally. It also offers me a quick, if threadbare, instant first-impression psychological template.
At the moment, I'm forbidden under my lease to have either. But, yeah, I'd need to have a special need for a dog, whereas I'd get a cat in a nanosecond if the opportunity arose, need be damned.
Now, I have appreciation for useful dogs. Hunters. Sleds. Seeing Eye. Sniffers. I also have appreciation for horses in their uses, although I likewise have no use for them.
I might sit here and say I'd have no use for a ยต$oft program, but the world is not so kind to me that I don't encounter places and times where I need to use one. If I had my druthers, I wouldn't, which is why I have none in my personal technologies. I'm somewhat in awe of those who are able to release themselves of all yokes and install linux, because I know I don't know enough to be able to do all that I do do right now under a linux distro, although I've had moderate success with the latest Ubuntu I installed. And, the evolution of computing devices into even the merest of appliances bodes well for the instantiation of linux into all our lives most totally. MacOS is a unix variant, therefore I'm assuming the iPhone OS (sometimes called iOS these days) is as well. I'm still wondering why there's any reason to separate unix from linux, especially to one like myself, generally unable to delve deep, and in no hurry to need to.
