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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:22:29 -0700
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Sn!pe 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:
>>>>>>> Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> He's [JWC is] more like scabies:
>>>>>>>>>> really irritating and difficult to get rid of.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OK, Mac user.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The point is, Sn!pe can't talk high-and-mighty about me,
>>>>>>> a Linux user.
>>>>>>
> 
> [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.
> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sn!pe gives me no reason to believe she uses the command line.
>>>>
> 
> Please!  Upon what grounds do you impute my sex, you person of
> distinctly ambiguous gender?  That is completely irrelevant, merely
> gratuitously offensive.
> 
>>>>
>>>> I used vim to type this.
>>>> It's up to the "user" to "use" what works for them.
>>>> That's real equality.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
oh no , i get that