Re: Linux advocacy

On 9/24/24 2:29 PM, Lester Thorpe wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:20:02 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
 

>
A 'puter is supposed to be a tool to do a job,
the underpinnings should ideally be unnoticeable.
>

 Incorrect, Apple fathead.
 A computer is a "general purpose machine," which means
that it doesn't do anything but it embodies the potential
to do everything.

Yet over the past 40 years, they've grown into being much more than just a PDP-11 with a teletype terminal. They now serve many duties, one of which is even cat pictures! /s

(Apple shitheads don't venture within 100 miles of Comp Sci.)
 However, in order to do something, a computer must be
"programmed," and thus the "underpinnings" are of paramount
importance.
 In contrast, Apple devices, and Apple users, are mere appliances.

Oh, so did you write your own newsreader from scratch to fabricate this very post, "Lester"?  Or did you use someone else's canned software as your productivity tool, so you're just being a hypocrite?

They are set to do a single task, however convoluted that task
may appear.
 But the Apple user, like YOU, is a total lackey.
 He will, without question, hand over his BIG $BUCKS to Apple
and associates for the brief luxury of having a "turn key"
system.

Oh, look:  This "BIG $BUCKS" another explicit reference to cost, in the context of Apple products vs others.  Now tagged for those who try to deny the "Linux cheapskates" topic.  :-)

Don't miss your subscription payment, sucker, or else you
will be dead in the fucking water.
 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
 What fools these Appleheads be.

Hmm...perhaps this "Lester" can fill me in on just what onerous subscription payments I'm allegedly making, where, and for what?
-hh