Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:24:48 +0000 From: Joel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:24:47 -0500 Message-ID: <0ocikj9ctqn0o3sae3uqe28nnk5hrgg7de@4ax.com> References: <9g7ekj56e3ed15bs1f434sg1bijurfru65@4ax.com> <27vekjtp4q263gmgdo83cqar5048tujlj4@4ax.com> <071ikjds6op23p9b1vk6lg4l5379t7mv9l@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Debian 12, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 63 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-AxGy5xezmwPaU9Eky38tPuS6nfOnlF0oQxbPFHLNOlM57pdQkjOxgjYaHzioow7iBTrdzvwT7IZoVW2!5dHKx7+dzrULcD1cPpq4ofwiE3rfmeC8DSDhnmhmy+s2WjqC0oqZiScfGKNtw710r9Ydg0B2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3757 Alan wrote: >>>>>> How can you pretend that a USB-connected >>>>>> external drive is the same thing as an internal storage drive? >>>>> >>>>> By considering the actual performance of a USB 3.2 storage device? >>>>> >>>>> You read exactly like the superficially "expert" 1337 Linux dweeb you are: >>>>> >>>>> "USB???? Uggh... ...USB sux, man!". >>>> >>>> It doesn't suck for an external drive, using an external drive sucks >>>> as a continuous solution. >>> >>> Why? >> >> If I want two drives, I want them both internal. However, since I >> have no wish to dual-boot Winblows, I don't need a second drive. > >1. That's not an answer. That's saying the same thing by different words. It's an answer to Apple's arbitrary hand-holding of what you can do with your expensive device from them. >2. Having two drives has nothing to do with whether or not you are >dual-booting. I would have thought an "expert" would have understood that. You *can* dual-boot with a single drive, sure, but it sucks balls. I wouldn't do it. >>> And yet you won't use a SATA drive even if you wouldn't notice the >>> difference [from the speed of an NVMe drive]... >> >> Using SATA when NVMe is an option isn't elite enough, right. > >It's seems you're looking for "bragging rights", not utility. I mean, it is that in a sense, but even just to "feel good" about my build, I did what I did. I had a 1 TB SATA SSD, that I'd briefly used in my old computer, but I bought it for that computer, I wanted to get the latest and greatest for this one, even if it seems redundant to a "practical" person like you (who pays for Apple ...). -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.