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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux advocacy
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:03:58 -0400
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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