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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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On 1/3/25 6:52 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/01/2025 11:45, D wrote:
>> No I think it is just because someone pulled in 
>> comp.os.linux.advocacy. Seems a lot of trolls reside there. I looked 
>> into it, found it way to annoying, and stopped. But I got a reminder 
>> of why I stopped reading that group.
> 
> Yup. Ain't that the truth.

Yup, its a product of crossposting.  Things change and USENET just 
doesn't have the audience it did 30 years ago to have groups have 
sufficient critical mass to sustain (on- or off-topic) dialogs/


> Linux is good all by itself. Doesn't need advocacy.

Its a tool like anything else, so use the right tool for the job.

Advocates in COLA have historically fight against the wisdom of 
understanding that everything has its own strengths & weaknesses, 
swimming against uses where other solutions are better.

For example, take a new digital camera: wouldn't it be nice to not have 
to wait a year to read its new RAW file format?  Most folk just want 
pics, so they choose a platform where its supported on launch, not to 
have to sit down to DIY write & test a 3rd party driver first.

Meantime, my New Year's Resolution is to tweak my Linux NAS; seems that 
it needs a better RAM cache to not bottleneck on network, and those 
parts are due to arrive this weekend. I'll have to look around to see if 
I have some spare NVMEs to change up its disk cache while I'm at it too. 
  If that doesn't resolve things, then its probably time to look to some 
network gear to move some nodes from 1GbE to 10GbE.


-hh