is computer ownership a 'burden?'

[WalterMitty]

inspired by one of the better opebo quotes:

One of my favorite businesses is the Internet 'cafe', or shop, where you pay by the hour to use a computer.  Back home the only place you can use to avoid the burden of computer ownership is the public or university library.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

In the same sense that physical ownership of anything is a burden.  Certainly if one embraces the paradigm of cloud computing than being restricted to any one access point to the cloud is a potential burden.

[DC Al Fine]

Not in the sense Opebo means it.

[memphis]

Although it's not my personal fantasy, I can sort of understand not wanting to use a computer at all as some sort of self-sufficient pastoral ideal. I cannot understand wanting to go to a public place to use a public computer. Computer time is private time.

[TDAS04]

I don't believe that it is a burden. 

[WalterMitty]

Computer time is private time.

Bushie would agree.

[opebo]

I was just referring to two factors:

1. computer machines are costly

and,

2.  they break down constantly.

Well there might be a third - if you had to move, you would have to lug the thing about.