Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

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]
 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.
 

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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.
 

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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.

 [...]
 In what way does my fondness for my antediluvian News reader
make me inferior, if you please?
 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.
 Apart from that, you're a jolly fine fellow, well done.
 I've said my piece, now please feel free to have the last word.