Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
 

User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.13.6)
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Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
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He's [JWC is] more like scabies: 
really irritating and difficult to get rid of.

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OK, Mac user.

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You might have as well said "air breather".
If you need assistance with insults, I can help.
Can and will aren't equal.
I think your nym as "Buffy" would be more insightful.

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The point is, Sn!pe can't talk high-and-mighty about me,
a Linux user.

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[FTAOD, what follows is addressed to Joel] 
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Excuse me, I wasn't talking high and mighty about you as a Linux user
even though I happen to prefer macOS; I was criticising your behaviour
as a Usenet user.

 
 
You don't believe I'm Jesus, we know.
 
 

A Linux user would need additional accolades to be high-and-mighty.
I'm only 5'10" but I'm somewhat strong.
Tough to be everything at once.

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Sn!pe gives me no reason to believe she uses the command line.

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Please!  Upon what grounds do you impute my sex, you person of
distinctly ambiguous gender?  That is completely irrelevant, merely
gratuitously offensive.

 
 
I thought I remembered you being female, I admit I don't know quite
where that's from.
 

I was going to leave this but, glutton for punishment that i am: 
misgendering is considered unforgiveable among some sections
of society.  It seems that some of those think it's permissible.

 

I used vim to type this.
It's up to the "user" to "use" what works for them.
That's real equality.

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I'm using Forte Agent under Wine, but you see, that's for Usenet,
I'm not living in 1987, or something.  There are things I have on my
system that Debian doesn't just hand you on a silver platter.
Whereas Sn!pe uses MacSOUP FFS.

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In what way does my fondness for my antediluvian News reader
make me inferior, if you please?

 
 
You're using an OS released in 2017.  On Intel.  And it's Apple.
Just tacky.
 

OMG, I feel so inferior.  I wasn't going to rise to this but WTH,
I haven't anything better to do this evening other than watch TV,
so it's willy-waving time: 

My daily driver is a 2021 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max running macOS
Sequoia 15.3.2, the latest revision and fully updated.  I'll leave the
full spec. out of this as it would be unseemly to brag but it's 64 bit
only.

Yes, I use a legacy machine; it's a 2009 iMac which I keep because some
of my legacy software (including the last revision of MacSOUP and my
printer driver) requires a 32 bit machine.  It runs macOS High Sierra
10.13.6, fully updated, the last revision it can handle.  I VNC into it
with Mac 'Screen Sharing' from my MBP.

I started on Usenet in 1994 with KA9Q under MS DOS; it's 'command line'
s/w.  Then I used Trumpet Winsock and later Forté (Free) Agent v. 0.37a
when it first saw the light of day.  I bought a license for Agent when
it came out of beta; it dates from ~1997, not 1987

I could give you my entire PC history from MS DOS 2.4 in 1984 via
'Doze 3.0 to NT4, then Mandrake Linux for several years before I saw the
light, put away my screwdrivers and switched to macOS 10.3 "Panther".
I've stuck with Macs ever since; they just *work*, you know?

I could go on but it would be even boring than the above.

 

In my strictly personal view:  you, Mr "Internet Presence" are plainly
and simply a risible poseur.  You are a habitual hijacker of technical
threads in a technical newsgroup for self-aggrandisement and promotion
of your own alternative sexual practices.  You have a greatly overblown,
hubristic, opinion of your own worth and you're downright pompous.
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Apart from that, you're a jolly fine fellow, well done. 
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I've said my piece, now please feel free to have the last word.
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It's Usenet, heh.
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Yes, and you're a philistine who neither cares nor bothers to treat
Usenet with respect.  Please note:  I haven't stooped to calling you a
'clueless newbie' because that would be offensive.

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