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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:19:40 -0400, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote in <vd2jsc$3le3m$3@dont-email.me>:

> 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 be absurd.

I paid more for my Thelio Mega from System76 than we paid for the
Mac Studio -- the latter being more of a "Unix workstation" than
Feeb's cobbled-together Xeon mess.

(I was advocating getting a Mac Pro, but the Missus balked at the cost.
The Mac Studio was a good compromise, and still included the neural engine.)

-- 
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   OS: Linux 6.11.0 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
   "The Microsoft Motto: "We're the leaders, wait for us!""