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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 22:56:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 08:50:19 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-03-06 9:09 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:27:52 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-03-06 6:34 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 16:50:04 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-03-06 4:34 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 08:35:52 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2025-03-05 1:49 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 08:55:40 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Woke would be to ensure that everyone has the same computer
>>>>>>>>> today,
>>>>>>>>> regardless of whether they have the means to buy something
>>>>>>>>> better or not. In other words, both the rich and the poor would
>>>>>>>>> be running something like today's equivalent of a Commodore 64
>>>>>>>>> with no option to increase RAM or add accessories.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So a Commodore 64 is “woke”, but, say, an Apple Iphone is not?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I didn't say that the Commodore 64 was woke ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But you did use it as an example of wokeness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would an Apple Iphone be something that non-woke people might use?
>>>>>> (Presumably by choice.)
>>>>>
>>>>> The point here, again, is that the proponents of equity would force
>>>>> us all to have the same device.
>>>>
>>>> But why a Commodore 64 rather than an Apple Iphone?
>>>
>>> Because my hatred of Apple is not as potent as yours.
>> 
>> Apple are well-known for their DEI policies. Wouldn’t you call them an
>> example of a “woke” company? They even have a person of gender--one of
>> those that President Musk is trying to get rid of--as their boss.
> 
> He's a homosexual, but I haven't yet heard of him believing himself to
> be a woman.

Still, Apple is a better example -- possibly the best example -- of a 
product that woke people would use, isn’t it?