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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux advocacy Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:03:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 72 Message-ID: <vd3ije$5t69$1@dont-email.me> References: <llecmiFnttdU2@mid.individual.net> <1r0e7hp.bb6yp5z6dhnaN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <pan$a442$1b04913f$db0d3dc5$f374f4c7@gnu.rocks> <vd2jsc$3le3m$3@dont-email.me> <llkafoFl9a4U1@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="14cafc9bd62c05f3aa163bc8efef8216"; logging-data="193737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/adpYcZ22MLGrH/+o9nVWiCMOmRjV++R4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:gwXwPSGzTgnop8wMJ8V+Cihr8JA= In-Reply-To: <llkafoFl9a4U1@mid.individual.net> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3809 On 9/26/24 1:41 AM, vallor wrote: > 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'm not: I'm just noting where others have whined about costs on Applr products. > 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. Sure, because workstation class PCs have shot up in price ~5 years ago: I noticed the same thing when I was shopping to replace my Mac Pro and was actually seriously considering migrating some stuff to Windows. > (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.) Which with the Apple ARM chip instead of Intel, aligns with their main product line, so it has a more promising developmental future as well as being ~half the cost of the last Mac Pro. -hh