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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:11:26 -0700
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On 2025-03-24 21:09, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> 2. You seem to think that the next step below having 32GB of RAM is 16GB.
>>>
>>> ROFL.  You are proving that you have a small mind.  Yes, Alan, I
>>> could've installed an additional 8 GB to the original 16, for 24.  I
>>> could also drink a fuckin' Pepsi and realize how overanalyzed that
>>> would be, I bought the same pair I originally had, to make four times
>>> 8 GB instead of two times 8 GB, it was a very sensible and affordable
>>> decision, because in the ensuing years since I assembled the machine,
>>> the prices of RAM had declined.
>> I only mentioned it to show your limited thinking.
> 
> 
> OK, but seriously, if I started with two times 8 GB, why would the
> next step be to add two times 4 GB?  A mere 50% increase, not even
> using as large a size as the first two?  Doesn't that seem kinda gay?
> 

And here it comes.

It isn't about what is necessary.

It's about proving your manhood.