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On 11/27/24 23:28, DFS wrote:
> On 11/27/2024 9:39 PM, bad sector wrote:
> 
> 
>> Devs code and users try to deal with the result in often rudimentary 
>> surroundings because in a sense both are able and willing to pay the 
>> price of freedom. Neither frolic in the brass beds of ivory towers, 
>> but we must not be condescending to those who simply do not have the 
>> multi-dimensional currency to pay the price.
> 
> 
> Could you be any more cheesy and lame?  JHC.

I ask myself if you have cognitive issues, & WTF is JHC?


> That cringe is right up there with Feeb's Ode to Assembly:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> When I encounter high level code of any kind, my mind cannot help
> but to plunge immediately down into the assembly code that underlies
> it all.  Thus, as a consequence, I do not not especially favor
> the creation of ever higher abstractions that serve only to
> obliterate and not truly enlighten.
> 
> It is, I suppose a sickness, but it is a sickness from which no
> escape, or cure, is possible.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> gawd
> 
> 
> 
>> Gordon Lightfoot's rendition:
>>
>> "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
>> Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free"
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ2MrKKPYCU
> 
> Use and develop only FOSS software and chances are very high you'll end 
> up with nothing.

Never done dev but I did some coding in another life, now I just 'use' 
FOSS exclusively  ...yet there isn't a single person on his planet that 
I would trade places with in my past present and hopefully future. 
Nothing to one may be everything to another.


-- 
"Nous n'héritons pas de la terre de nos parents, nous l'empruntons à nos 
enfants."  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry