Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:21:00 +0000 From: Joel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:21:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <80rckj1bferjoe36ukvf0hdt8eqk5561pr@4ax.com> <9g7ekj56e3ed15bs1f434sg1bijurfru65@4ax.com> <27vekjtp4q263gmgdo83cqar5048tujlj4@4ax.com> <9u0fkj1ts5bnvo8rrgsf961eor3tjttk0j@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Debian 12, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-f4BySOxQj/+OkZMPUyOnx5Ad2vCIYgxlxOXTA3YFzt3ht7hOrU6AH9Gjw5VnxjSBZmOoChLADOIh9FG!ViWkMUJECGyQ+mD8iWuIJ/uevWWCsAyTPfXc5oqaKjn0fYhXgegGlb8xIej+PbGcwpNMGb40 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2994 Alan wrote: >> I could add >> another [internal] SSD, without even removing my first one. Whereas with Apple, >> I have to decide up front exactly what the internal storage will >> always be. It's pathetic. > >No. It's a business decision Apple has made and it clearly works well >enough for many consumers. There it is, rationalization of Apple's hand-holding. Pathetic. >>> ...I mean apart from "bragging rights" about how your system is "elite"? >> >> You can make excuses, rationalize, but Apple is just crapware, is the >> truth. They take you for a sucker. >My systems just work. > >:-) And that's fine - but mine just works, too. I expect to have to get my hands dirty, assembling hardware, and use my brain, setting up the OS and installing software. It's *my* computer, not Microsoft's, not Apple's or Dell's. Even when I first installed Win10 on it, in 2021, it was my setup of such, not an OEM's. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.