• Re: windowx with microsoft

    From Brennus@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Thu Aug 14 00:46:21 2025
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    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:

    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was
    a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept through
    the entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the teacher about
    ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer scientist.  It's
    this sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an
    inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good
    person, it's about delivering something worthwhile too.


    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon
    release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not
    remotely on that scale. M$ has had some of the best minds in the
    industry, but their frantic pace of development has at times meant
    harm to consumers.


    Any more breaking news for us?

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 13 19:21:01 2025
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    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a
    guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics
    and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.
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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Thu Aug 14 03:53:59 2025
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    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:28:38 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon
    release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not remotely
    on that scale. M$ has had some of the best minds in the industry, but
    their frantic pace of development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    They had problems but they were better than NT 4.0. I can't remember the
    last time I saw the BSOD but with 4.0 expecting the box to be up and
    running the next morning was a stretch.

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Thu Aug 14 07:22:08 2025
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    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a
    guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics
    and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at >Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.

    Everyone has ethics, at a personal level. However, when considering
    only the behavior of the company, only management is responsible for
    that. The same for quality. You don't blame Bubba on the assembly
    line for that missing component.

    --
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    believe that no Linux fanboy considers cost a factor on Linux
    'superiority'" - lying asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to chrisv on Thu Aug 14 08:10:38 2025
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    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a
    guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics
    and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.

    Everyone has ethics, at a personal level. However, when considering
    only the behavior of the company, only management is responsible for
    that. The same for quality. You don't blame Bubba on the assembly
    line for that missing component.

    Are you saying Bubba flubbed Windows?

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to chrisv on Thu Aug 14 08:14:43 2025
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    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a
    guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics
    and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.

    Everyone has ethics, at a personal level. However, when considering
    only the behavior of the company, only management is responsible for
    that. The same for quality. You don't blame Bubba on the assembly
    line for that missing component.

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    I grew up on the NeXT computer, which had everything and the kitchen
    sink included with it. Microsoft is trying to feed me an incomplete OS.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Thu Aug 14 16:43:34 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:14:43 -0500, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    I grew up on the NeXT computer, which had everything and the kitchen
    sink included with it. Microsoft is trying to feed me an incomplete OS.

    Considering this is a Linux group I have to point out many distros install LibreOffice whether you want it or not. Personally, I have no use for it.
    My Windows machines do not have Office either.

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Thu Aug 14 14:59:16 2025
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    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    --
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    "When it is my IP it is good, but when it is anyone else's IP it is
    evil (and OK to steal)."' - lying asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to chrisv on Thu Aug 14 18:59:12 2025
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    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing software
    for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to chrisv on Thu Aug 14 19:12:07 2025
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    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    Did you even read what I wrote? If I live for 30 more yrs, then Word is
    going to cost me $2100. Isn't that too high in your consideration? I'm
    not here to get free software, I'm here to pay a reasonable price for
    what I consider to be the best word processor available.

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Thu Aug 14 19:22:33 2025
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    Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 8/14/25 7:59 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:
    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor.  The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor.  This is such utter bullshit.  I can't even >>>> pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement.  My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing
    software for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"


    LO exists because OO got taken in the wrong direction, so LO is the one
    to use today.  You may want something more like Word that isn't Word,
    but if so, start coding*.  Frankly I don't know what you think would be
    so great about that, LO Writer works as it is, free to download.

    * There is this, though:  https://www.wps.com/

    I'll have a look at both (LO and wps). What I'm searching for is a way
    to spring an extra $50 or $100 to have the advertisements removed. They
    are not innocuous to me. Hopefully LO is what I want.

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Fri Aug 15 01:08:38 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word ...

    That’s a feature, not a bug.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to chrisv on Fri Aug 15 02:04:02 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:59:16 -0500, chrisv <[email protected]d> wrote
    in <[email protected]>:

    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    I was going to ask him if he'd tried LibreOffice...

    Of course, if you want professional typesetting, it's time
    for LaTeX ... or even a groff macro package.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 15 02:11:33 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic
    <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't
    even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing software
    for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 14 21:41:25 2025
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    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't
    even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing software
    for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    A fellow time traveler!

    WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by
    Alludo,[3] with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.
    At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the
    market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader
    WordStar.

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 14 21:36:41 2025
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    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't
    even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing software
    for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    I'm pretty sure that's obsolete.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 15 03:41:04 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:36:41 -0500, Lane the Caustic
    <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic
    <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better >>>>> have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't
    even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party
    to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing
    software for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU
    MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    I'm pretty sure that's obsolete.

    Look it up on Amazon.

    (I have no dog in this race, though, as I'm perfectly
    happy with LibreOffice, as well as groff.)

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Fri Aug 15 04:23:38 2025
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    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:36:41 -0500, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    I'm pretty sure [WordPerfect]'s obsolete.

    There are still some people who think “Reveal Codes” is a neat feature,
    not an indication of a functional deficiency ...

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Aug 15 15:48:58 2025
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    vallor wrote:

    chrisv <[email protected]d> wrote

    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even >>>pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    I was going to ask him if he'd tried LibreOffice...

    A quick google also found this, which I'd not heard of before.

    https://www.freeoffice.com/en/features/freeoffice

    They claim to mimic MSO, and allow you to choose either ribbon or
    classic interfaces.

    I didn't see anything about donations, so I don't kow what their
    business model is...

    Of course, if you want professional typesetting, it's time
    for LaTeX ... or even a groff macro package.

    --
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    OSs out there:" - lying asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Fri Aug 15 15:55:07 2025
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    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS
    office substitute", that's their problem.

    Did you even read what I wrote? If I live for 30 more yrs, then Word is >going to cost me $2100. Isn't that too high in your consideration?

    Yes. Far too high.

    I'm not here to get free software, I'm here to pay a reasonable price
    for what I consider to be the best word processor available.

    Well, life's a bitch, sometimes. Word processing software is a very
    mature technology. Free versions are plenty good for most. To my
    knowledge, only one payware product remains. So if you want that, you
    pay the asking price.

    --
    "The facts are that chrisv has not provided any material support for
    his unsubstantiated 'nice' claim." - butthurt loser "-hh", after I
    claimed to have a "nice house"

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Sat Aug 16 00:54:53 2025
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    On 2025-08-15, Joel W. Crump <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 8/15/25 4:48 PM, chrisv wrote:

    A quick google also found this, which I'd not heard of before.

    https://www.freeoffice.com/en/features/freeoffice


    Thanks! I hadn't known of this, either.


    Me either.
    Thanks.


    --
    pothead

    "Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
    Then our choices make us."
    -- Anne Frank

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to chrisv on Sat Aug 16 01:17:26 2025
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    On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:55:07 -0500, chrisv wrote:

    Well, life's a bitch, sometimes. Word processing software is a very
    mature technology. Free versions are plenty good for most. To my
    knowledge, only one payware product remains. So if you want that, you
    pay the asking price.

    I must be the last person in the world who hasn't used word processing
    software since the Wordstar that came bundled on a CP/M machine and I used
    that for a programming editor for lack of anything better. vi, real old
    school vi, was primitive.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Aug 16 01:26:01 2025
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    On Aug 14, 2025 at 9:14:43 AM EDT, "Lane the Caustic" <[email protected]> wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a
    guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics
    and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.

    Everyone has ethics, at a personal level. However, when considering
    only the behavior of the company, only management is responsible for
    that. The same for quality. You don't blame Bubba on the assembly
    line for that missing component.

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    You can buy Office 2021 Professional for $50. Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
    Outlook, Teams, Publisher, OneNote, Access. That's what I did in 2023. I don't want to rent software by the year either.

    Office 2024 is around $150 the last time I saw it. Windows 11 is $15 now but has gone down to $10 several times. deals.bleepingcomputer.com. Yes it is
    all legit. All you buy is the license key and then DL the ISO image from Microsoft.

    In fact, I bought Windows 11 Arm, Office 2021 for Windows and Office 2021 for Mac for $125 in 2023. All running (and updating) just fine on this Mac.
    Windows Arm is running in VMware Fusion which is also free.

    Life is good.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 16 03:13:34 2025
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    On Aug 15, 2025 at 10:28:59 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:26:01 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

    Office 2024 is around $150 the last time I saw it. ...

    Life is good.

    Particularly if you lie and claim to be a student or something. Then you
    can get discounts on proprietary software that you’re not entitled to.

    Possibly. But that does not apply here. These are the prices for everyone.
    Did you bother to go to the link and check the prices?

    Obviously not. So thanks for proving that you are a jackass.

    $50 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, OneNote and Access is an incredible bargain. That is $6.25 each. As close to free as you can get.


    And BTW, FOAD.

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sat Aug 16 02:28:59 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:26:01 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

    Office 2024 is around $150 the last time I saw it. ...

    Life is good.

    Particularly if you lie and claim to be a student or something. Then you
    can get discounts on proprietary software that you’re not entitled to.

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sat Aug 16 04:36:49 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:13:34 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

    $50 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, OneNote
    and Access is an incredible bargain. That is $6.25 each. As close to
    free as you can get.

    ... without actually being free.

    And remember, Free software doesn’t mean “free of charge”, it means “free of restrictions”. Because ...

    Did you bother to go to the link and check the prices?

    I did better, I went to the link and checked the EULA <https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/servicesagreement>. E.g. look at
    section 3a, restrictions on what you can do with the software. There
    are some in these groups who strenuously object to observing what they
    call “woke” codes of conduct, yet they happily sign up to restrictions imposed on them by some faceless, profit-seeking megacorporation.

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sat Aug 16 07:58:28 2025
    XPost: alt.slack, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    Tyrone wrote:

    $50 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, OneNote and Access >is an incredible bargain.

    It is, if you really need half of that crap. The typical home user
    needs only the most rudimentary word processor and *maybe*
    spreadsheet. Such basic software should be (and is) free, at this
    point in time.

    --
    "Because they expect to have everything given to them for free." -
    Dunce Rabbit, lying shamelessly

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to vallor on Sat Aug 16 08:54:16 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    I'm pretty sure that's obsolete.

    Look it up on Amazon.

    Wow. I'm astonished that they are still in business.

    --
    "The problem with Linux is too LITTLE choice. There is a bunch of
    false choice where you have a million desktop distros *all* tied to
    the same limited open source ecosystem." - some thing

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Sat Aug 16 14:49:20 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Tyrone wrote:
    On Aug 14, 2025 at 9:14:43 AM EDT, "Lane the Caustic" <[email protected]> wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was a >>>> guest speaker from Microsoft. Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing. This school I once asked one of the teacher about ethics >>>> and he said he had none. He's a computer scientist. It's this sort of >>>> thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's about
    delivering something worthwhile too.

    Everyone has ethics, at a personal level. However, when considering
    only the behavior of the company, only management is responsible for
    that. The same for quality. You don't blame Bubba on the assembly
    line for that missing component.

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better
    have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr
    extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't even
    pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    You can buy Office 2021 Professional for $50. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, OneNote, Access. That's what I did in 2023. I don't want to rent software by the year either.

    Office 2024 is around $150 the last time I saw it. Windows 11 is $15 now but has gone down to $10 several times. deals.bleepingcomputer.com. Yes it is all legit. All you buy is the license key and then DL the ISO image from Microsoft.

    In fact, I bought Windows 11 Arm, Office 2021 for Windows and Office 2021 for Mac for $125 in 2023. All running (and updating) just fine on this Mac. Windows Arm is running in VMware Fusion which is also free.

    Life is good.


    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy
    software. for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of
    everything.

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 16 17:20:57 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy
    software. for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of
    everything.

    Who are you calling human?


    do you have pirated software?

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to jojo on Sat Aug 16 22:42:46 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in commercial applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No high moral
    ground, I just never needed to.

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 17 03:20:54 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to vallor on Sun Aug 17 00:24:39 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:36:41 -0500, Lane the Caustic <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic
    <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better >>>>>> have a word processor. The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr >>>>>> extra for a word processor. This is such utter bullshit. I can't >>>>>> even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS >>>>> office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement. My dollars are supposed to be a
    vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party >>>> to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing
    software for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU
    MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    I'm pretty sure that's obsolete.

    Look it up on Amazon.

    (I have no dog in this race, though, as I'm perfectly
    happy with LibreOffice, as well as groff.)

    * * *

    I can hear it coming
    Know it's on its way
    And when it starts to overflow
    I fall asleep again

    And the way you're talking
    Is telling me it's here
    And when you start to overflow
    I will lie again

    Do you feel it blowing?
    Do you feel it's here?
    Anywhere I'm going
    It's near

    I can see it coming
    On the faces that you wear
    Until they start to overflow
    I've given all I can

    Do you feel it blowing?
    Do you feel it's here?
    Anywhere I'm going
    It's near

    * * *

    If it's only on Amazon, it's probably obsolete like I said.

    <https://www.amazon.com/Sony-SLV-N51-4-Head-Hi-Fi-VCR/dp/B00005I9R4/ref=sr_1_4>

    BTW, STFU. This is my group now and you haven't shown any good reason
    to be here.

    --
    n

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 16 23:28:41 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in commercial applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No high moral
    ground, I just never needed to.

    JEEKA TAROK CHOK MAKTAK YOOLOOPEE KAZ

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sun Aug 17 09:04:25 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On 16 Aug 2025 22:42:46 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in commercial applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No high moral
    ground, I just never needed to.

    My Subaru's Nav unit includes GPL'ed software -- there's a place in
    the menus that displays licences, and where to go if you want the
    source to the libraries they use.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "MS Windows -- From the people who brought you EDLIN!"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to vallor on Sun Aug 17 06:42:11 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On 16 Aug 2025 22:42:46 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in commercial
    applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No high moral
    ground, I just never needed to.

    My Subaru's Nav unit includes GPL'ed software -- there's a place in
    the menus that displays licences, and where to go if you want the
    source to the libraries they use.

    Just shut up. This isn't interesting at all.

    --
    n

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 17 16:01:56 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.


    mac is like putting all your eggs on an incline.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 17 17:43:26 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    % wrote:
    jojo wrote:
    Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for?  I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you
    need,
    because you won’t have much left over.


    mac is like putting all your eggs on an incline.

    so is your head

    what? my head in on an incline? that makes no sense.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 17 18:48:53 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:20:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.

    I recently read an article that Apple is developing a cheap Mac to compete
    with the cheap Windows products -- with the same cheap level of
    performance. Good luck. That's been part of the mystique; my expensive Mac
    has such better hardware than my bargain bin Windows laptop. Go figure.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to vallor on Sun Aug 17 18:45:00 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On 17 Aug 2025 09:04:25 GMT, vallor wrote:

    On 16 Aug 2025 22:42:46 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy
    software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in
    commercial applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No
    high moral ground, I just never needed to.

    My Subaru's Nav unit includes GPL'ed software -- there's a place in the
    menus that displays licences, and where to go if you want the source to
    the libraries they use.

    That *should* be sufficient. That's similar to using OSM data for maps and putting the attribution down in the lower right area. Looking at the geocaching.com map right now I see

    'Leaflet | © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap © Esri contributors.'

    Leaflet is a JavaScript API similar to the commercial Esri or Google APIs.
    fwiw Geocaching originally used the Google API when it was more or less
    free back in the early 2000s although the exact status wasn't clear. Then Google monetized the product with a passion. I'd talked to Google about licensing and it was so arcane we ended up using Esri. The Esri licenses
    aren't cheap but you don't get the feeling you're talking to a used car salesman trying to weigh your wallet.

    Trolltech wasn't as bad but it still posed problems. Qt is open source but needs a license for commercial use. Fine, but the trolls were never too
    clear on what the license would cost. I don't know if the Qt Group has
    gotten better at running a business.

    My personal approach was if I felt I needed to ask a team of lawyers if I should or shouldn't use the software I didn't. Most of the useful software
    now tends to be MIT, Apache, no clause BSD, and other permissive licenses. Stallman is probably pissed so much open source software is really open
    but so it goes.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Lane the Caustic on Sun Aug 17 18:50:02 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:24:39 -0500, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    BTW, STFU. This is my group now and you haven't shown any good reason
    to be here.

    New nym, Larry? Buh-bye.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 18 18:29:06 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]>
    wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Don't let the computer bugs bite!"

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Aug 18 18:32:37 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to jojo on Mon Aug 18 18:51:47 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]>
    wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on >> /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Experience is a good teacher but her fees are high..."

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Aug 18 19:20:49 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    so you are rich.. what would you say is the most expensive thing
    you own, apart from property and financial assets?

    smart is not always equal to rich, i am a poor smart person..
    well not poor exactly, its complicated.

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  • From Janithor@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Aug 18 14:42:00 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    x-no-archive: yes

    On 8/18/2025 11:51 AM, vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    Doesn't it embarrass you to be so predictable? Like a cartoon.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Aug 18 23:27:27 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On 2025-08-17, vallor <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 16 Aug 2025 22:42:46 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:49:20 +0000, jojo wrote:

    i think once a person earns over 100,000 a year, they can buy software.
    for the rest of us humans its pirated versions of everything.

    I may have skated around the edges of using GPLd libraries in commercial
    applications but I don't recall ever pirating software. No high moral
    ground, I just never needed to.

    My Subaru's Nav unit includes GPL'ed software -- there's a place in
    the menus that displays licences, and where to go if you want the
    source to the libraries they use.

    So does my 2024 Mustang GT.

    <https://corporate.ford.com/about/ford-open-source.html>



    --
    pothead

    "Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
    Then our choices make us."
    -- Anne Frank

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Mon Aug 18 23:40:41 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won’t have much left over.

    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    And you better decide up front how much you’re going to need, because it’s not upgradeable afterwards.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Doc Hammerslack@21:1/5 to rbowman on Tue Aug 19 00:13:35 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    NOTICE: The DOCTOR is ON...at 17 Aug 2025 18:50:02 GMT, rbowman wrote:

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:24:39 -0500, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    BTW, STFU. This is my group now and you haven't shown any good reason
    to be here.

    New nym, Larry? Buh-bye.

    It's not Larry, it's the one formerly known as nosefender.

    (Or so I was told by a semi-reliable source.)

    --
    Doc Hammerslack
    Today is Setting Orange, the 11th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3191

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to jojo on Tue Aug 19 00:27:26 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:20:49 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    so you are rich..

    I didn't say that.

    what would you say is the most expensive thing
    you own, apart from property and financial assets?

    That's a rather personal question, don't you think?

    smart is not always equal to rich, i am a poor smart person..
    well not poor exactly, its complicated.

    You're not poor if get 3 squares a day, have a roof over your head,
    and can post on Usenet all day.

    ObLinux: Does a Linux workstation count as "property", in the context
    of your question?

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Death is a nonmaskable interrupt."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 18 18:07:15 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    In article <107rhqm$22lcn$[email protected]>,
    [email protected]d says...

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr �n!on wrote:

    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you?ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need,
    because you won?t have much left over.

    It is true! He wrote down every time he
    masterbated! What a weirdo.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From jojo@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Tue Aug 19 18:09:48 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 8/18/25 7:40 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:

    I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you
    need,
    because you won’t have much left over.

    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    And you better decide up front how much you’re going to need,
    because it’s
    not upgradeable afterwards.


    Yup, Apple can blow me.


    they will charge you a medical degree's worth for that.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From jojo@21:1/5 to vallor on Tue Aug 19 18:08:19 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:20:49 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    so you are rich..

    I didn't say that.

    what would you say is the most expensive thing
    you own, apart from property and financial assets?

    That's a rather personal question, don't you think?

    well.. ok whatever you are comfortable revelaing in terms of
    cost. some fancy car or painting. do you own any painting btw?


    smart is not always equal to rich, i am a poor smart person..
    well not poor exactly, its complicated.

    You're not poor if get 3 squares a day, have a roof over your head,
    and can post on Usenet all day.

    ObLinux: Does a Linux workstation count as "property", in the context
    of your question?


    workstation is work related, so doesnt count as personal income.

    but i totally disagree with 3 meals a day stuff. poorness, just
    like time and space is relative.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Wed Aug 20 13:59:46 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was
    a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept through the
    entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the teacher about
    ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer scientist.  It's this
    sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior
    product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good person, it's
    about delivering something worthwhile too.


    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon
    release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not remotely
    on that scale.  M$ has had some of the best minds in the industry, but
    their frantic pace of development has at times meant harm to consumers.



    Linuxz has even more bugs and critters but the hackers know all the
    bozos who use Linux don't have a plug nickle to their name so that's the
    reason Linux never getZ hacked. There's nothing in it for the hackers.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Brennus on Wed Aug 20 14:04:55 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:

    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was
    a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept through
    the entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the teacher about
    ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer scientist.  It's
    this sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an
    inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good
    person, it's about delivering something worthwhile too.


    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon
    release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not
    remotely on that scale. M$ has had some of the best minds in the
    industry, but their frantic pace of development has at times meant
    harm to consumers.


    Any more breaking news for us?

    The winodws LTSC IOT windows 10 version updates on newer computers
    but not on older ones. It downloads the updates but goes into error
    installing them. I converted a Chromebook 14 to windows and because of
    the small hard drive I installed windows 10 LTSC IOT and it never
    installed any of the updates but downloaded them but it worked on my
    newer computers. All were with like forced activation. By the way Linux
    is for airheads who think they can shove a square block into a round hole.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Brennus on Wed Aug 20 14:13:44 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:

    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there was
    a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept through
    the entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the teacher about
    ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer scientist.  It's
    this sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an
    inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good
    person, it's about delivering something worthwhile too.


    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon
    release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not
    remotely on that scale. M$ has had some of the best minds in the
    industry, but their frantic pace of development has at times meant
    harm to consumers.


    Any more breaking news for us?


    You might not know this but when I'm not working on the P5 hack for
    Direct Tv I make better operating systems for computers than all the
    crap out there. I could care less about lawsuits from Microshit because
    once I slapZ my name on something I'm the owner not Micoshit. I fix
    things that needZ$ fixing.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Janithor on Wed Aug 20 18:57:19 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:42:00 -0700, Janithor <[email protected]> wrote
    in <10806n9$3c35i$[email protected]>:

    x-no-archive: yes

    On 8/18/2025 11:51 AM, vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    Doesn't it embarrass you to be so predictable? Like a cartoon.

    You must be one of those people getting really upset.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Do witches run spell checkers?"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tony on Wed Aug 20 22:12:43 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:59:46 -0400, Tony wrote:

    Linuxz has even more bugs and critters but the hackers know all the
    bozos who use Linux don't have a plug nickle to their name so that's
    the reason Linux never getZ hacked.

    Interestingly enough, it did use to get hacked a lot more before, when
    it was less popular <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linux_malware#Threats>.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tony on Wed Aug 20 22:13:37 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:04:55 -0400, Tony wrote:

    The winodws LTSC IOT windows 10 version updates on newer computers
    but not on older ones. It downloads the updates but goes into error installing them.

    That’s why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Tony on Wed Aug 20 22:42:10 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there >>>>>>> was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept >>>>>>> through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the >>>>>>> teacher about ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer >>>>>>> scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics >>>>>>> has led to an inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about >>>>>>> being a good person, it's about delivering something worthwhile
    too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon >>>>>> release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not
    remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the best minds in the >>>>>> industry, but their frantic pace of development has at times meant >>>>>> harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux for an >>>> extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.  LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg in
    the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until their
    brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux shit and
    tell everyone who great it is after their brain shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my
    news servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Linux, the choice of a GNU generation."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to vallor on Wed Aug 20 23:29:53 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day
    there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, >>>>>>>> I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked >>>>>>>> one of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none. 
    He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I
    think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good person, it's
    about delivering something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable
    upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an
    overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this
    problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the
    best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux
    for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public
    beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche. 
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg
    in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my
    news servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 20 23:57:11 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:29:53 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in
    <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day
    there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, >>>>>>>>> I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one >>>>>>>>> of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none. He's a >>>>>>>>> computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a >>>>>>>>> lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at Microsoft.  >>>>>>>>> It's not just about being a good person, it's about delivering >>>>>>>>> something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an
    overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this
    problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the best >>>>>>>> minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of development has >>>>>>>> at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux for >>>>>> an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public beta >>>>>> test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg
    in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than Sam
    Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device, which
    smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    I know you can't eat apples -- would cause a problem
    with your dentures.

    ObLinux:

    ETHERS(5) Linux System Administrator's Manual ETHERS(5)

    NAME
    ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database

    DESCRIPTION
    /etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their
    corresponding IP numbers, one line for each IP number:

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "If you hear an onion ring please answer it."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 00:14:41 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:29:53 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to
    say, I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once >>>>>>>>>> asked one of the teacher about ethics and he said he had
    none. He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort of
    thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior >>>>>>>>>> product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good >>>>>>>>>> person, it's about delivering something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an
    overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this
    problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux
    for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's
    public beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square
    peg in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long
    until their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the
    Linux shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    I know you can't eat apples -- would cause a problem
    with your dentures.


    Very lame and boring retort. You're boring. Go away.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Thu Aug 21 00:15:52 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:OjtpQ.144112$nuHb.13764 @fx10.iad:

    On 8/20/25 7:29 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.


    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-increasing demands
    on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime of the
    device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price for Windows
    Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically. Linux was
    necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10 would've been
    lame to still use.


    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you, though.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 01:00:15 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:14:41 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:29:53 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I >>>>>>>>>>> slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one >>>>>>>>>>> of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none. He's a >>>>>>>>>>> computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a >>>>>>>>>>> lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at Microsoft.  >>>>>>>>>>> It's not just about being a good person, it's about delivering >>>>>>>>>>> something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an >>>>>>>>>> overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this >>>>>>>>>> problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux >>>>>>>> for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public >>>>>>>> beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg >>>>> in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than Sam
    Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    I know you can't eat apples -- would cause a problem with your
    dentures.


    Very lame and boring retort. You're boring. Go away.

    Translation: You got pwned. Suck it, troll.

    ObLinux:

    TLDR-HS(1) User Commands TLDR-HS(1)

    NAME
    tldr-hs - manual page for tldr-hs 0.9.2

    SYNOPSIS
    tldr-hs [-v|--version]

    DESCRIPTION
    tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Chernobyl used Windows"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 21 01:09:38 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:54:03 -0700, % <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    Brennus wrote:
    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:29:53 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote >>>>> in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to >>>>>>>>>>>> say, I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once >>>>>>>>>>>> asked one of the teacher about ethics and he said he had >>>>>>>>>>>> none. He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort of >>>>>>>>>>>> thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior >>>>>>>>>>>> product at Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good >>>>>>>>>>>> person, it's about delivering something worthwhile too. >>>>>>>>>>>
    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an >>>>>>>>>>> overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this >>>>>>>>>>> problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux >>>>>>>>> for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's
    public beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche. >>>>>>>> LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square
    peg in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long
    until their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the >>>>>> Linux shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    I know you can't eat apples -- would cause a problem with your
    dentures.


    Very lame and boring retort. You're boring. Go away.

    get a room

    You assume he's used to sleeping indoors.

    ObLinux:

    locate(1) General Commands Manual locate(1)

    NAME
    plocate - find files by name, quickly

    SYNOPSIS
    plocate [OPTION]... PATTERN...

    DESCRIPTION
    plocate finds all files on the system matching the given
    pattern (or all of the patterns if multiple are given).
    It does this by means of an index made by updatedb(8) or
    (less commonly) converted from another index by plocate-
    build(8).


    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Thu Aug 21 02:04:47 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how
    that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-increasing
    demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime
    of the device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price
    for Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically.
    Linux was necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10
    would've been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 02:03:20 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:14:41 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:29:53 -0000 (UTC), Brennus
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]>
    wrote in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to >>>>>>>>>>>> say, I slept through the entire thing.  This school I >>>>>>>>>>>> once asked one of the teacher about ethics and he said he >>>>>>>>>>>> had none. He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort >>>>>>>>>>>> of thing that I think a lack of ethics has led to an
    inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about >>>>>>>>>>>> being a good person, it's about delivering something
    worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably
    stable upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs,
    requiring an overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux >>>>>>>>>>> never had this problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has >>>>>>>>>>> had some of the best minds in the industry, but their
    frantic pace of development has at times meant harm to
    consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used
    Linux for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows
    10's public beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche. >>>>>>>> LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square
    peg in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long
    until their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to
    the Linux shit and tell everyone who great it is after their
    brain shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    I know you can't eat apples -- would cause a problem with your
    dentures.


    Very lame and boring retort. You're boring. Go away.

    Translation: You got pwned. Suck it, troll.

    ObLinux:

    TLDR-HS(1) User Commands TLDR-HS(1)

    NAME
    tldr-hs - manual page for tldr-hs 0.9.2

    SYNOPSIS
    tldr-hs [-v|--version]

    DESCRIPTION
    tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages


    Oh look, you had to retort twice in your butthurt frenzy to show that I
    was "owned." Get lost, weirdo. LOL!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 02:45:15 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:04:47 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how
    that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-increasing
    demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime of
    the device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price for
    Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically. Linux
    was necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10 would've
    been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    You're running xnews, dumbass.

    ObLinux (man, this is getting old):

    # ethtool enp68s0f0np0
    Settings for enp68s0f0np0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    2500baseT/Full
    5000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 10000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    MDI-X: Unknown
    Supports Wake-on: umbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
    drv probe link
    Link detected: yes
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    That's ethtool(8), handy for making sure your ethernet
    is running at the speed you expect.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From pothead@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 02:57:37 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On 2025-08-21, vallor <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:04:47 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how
    that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-increasing >>>>> demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime of >>>>> the device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price for
    Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically. Linux
    was necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10 would've
    been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    You're running xnews, dumbass.

    ObLinux (man, this is getting old):

    # ethtool enp68s0f0np0
    Settings for enp68s0f0np0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    2500baseT/Full
    5000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 10000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    MDI-X: Unknown
    Supports Wake-on: umbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
    drv probe link
    Link detected: yes
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    That's ethtool(8), handy for making sure your ethernet
    is running at the speed you expect.


    Xnews despite being depreciated and not updated in years is actually one of
    the better Windows newsreaders.
    Fast, easily configurable, reliable,easy to use and so forth.
    Unlike later versions of say Agent which are horrible with menu items scattered all over
    the place in illogical places. They ruined the program in my opinion. Too complex.
    I'm an slrn fan so I have my own bias of course.

    --
    pothead

    "Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
    Then our choices make us."
    -- Anne Frank

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 03:35:50 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in news:mgnfhrFdqn5U1
    @mid.individual.net:

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:04:47 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how
    that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-
    increasing
    demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime
    of
    the device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price for
    Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically. Linux
    was necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10 would've
    been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    You're running xnews, dumbass.

    ObLinux (man, this is getting old):

    # ethtool enp68s0f0np0
    Settings for enp68s0f0np0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    2500baseT/Full
    5000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 10000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    MDI-X: Unknown
    Supports Wake-on: umbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
    drv probe link
    Link detected: yes
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    That's ethtool(8), handy for making sure your ethernet
    is running at the speed you expect.


    Do you have a point, shit-for-brains?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to pothead on Thu Aug 21 03:36:34 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    pothead <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:10861v1$mqpg$[email protected]:

    On 2025-08-21, vallor <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:04:47 -0000 (UTC), Brennus <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize
    how that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated,
    ever-increasing demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you
    for the lifetime of the device, they don't care about you, I paid
    the retail price for Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two
    years, basically. Linux was necessary to feel OK, once Win11
    outgrew me, and Win10 would've been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    You're running xnews, dumbass.

    ObLinux (man, this is getting old):

    # ethtool enp68s0f0np0
    Settings for enp68s0f0np0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    2500baseT/Full
    5000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    10000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 10000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    MDI-X: Unknown
    Supports Wake-on: umbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
    drv probe link
    Link detected: yes
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    That's ethtool(8), handy for making sure your ethernet
    is running at the speed you expect.


    Xnews despite being depreciated and not updated in years is actually
    one of the better Windows newsreaders.
    Fast, easily configurable, reliable,easy to use and so forth.
    Unlike later versions of say Agent which are horrible with menu items scattered all over the place in illogical places. They ruined the
    program in my opinion. Too complex. I'm an slrn fan so I have my own
    bias of course.


    You tell 'em, pothead. Rock on!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 21 04:32:18 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    % <[email protected]> wrote in news:f- [email protected]:

    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:oFtpQ.144113$[email protected]:

    On 8/20/25 8:15 PM, Brennus wrote:

    Only fags use line-sux and apples.

    You think it's hetero to run Winblows? Heh. You don't realize how
    that plagues your computer with Microsoft's bloated, ever-increasing >>>>> demands on hardware, not genuinely supporting you for the lifetime
    of the device, they don't care about you, I paid the retail price
    for Windows Pro, $200, and it was good for two years, basically.
    Linux was necessary to feel OK, once Win11 outgrew me, and Win10
    would've been lame to still use.

    I knew a guy in the Army named Crump. He wasn't a dummy like you,
    though.


    I'm the dummy but you're the one praising Windows over Linux? Heh.


    Show where I praised windows, dummy.

    you always do because you don't have any , tornado tits

    Sorry. I'm from Missouri and you're gonna have to show me. OK, I'm not
    from Missouri but I went to basic training there. While you gave blumpkins
    at the truck stop lavatory. LOL!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 12:24:12 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    vallor wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day there >>>>>>>> was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I slept >>>>>>>> through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one of the >>>>>>>> teacher about ethics and he said he had none.  He's a computer >>>>>>>> scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a lack of ethics >>>>>>>> has led to an inferior product at Microsoft.  It's not just about >>>>>>>> being a good person, it's about delivering something worthwhile >>>>>>>> too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable upon >>>>>>> release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an overhaul
    subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this problem, not
    remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the best minds in the >>>>>>> industry, but their frantic pace of development has at times meant >>>>>>> harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux for an >>>>> extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public beta test. >>>>>

    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.  LMAO! >>>>
    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg in
    the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until their
    brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux shit and
    tell everyone who great it is after their brain shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my
    news servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    If you were smart you'd get off of that Linux shit because each use
    destroys like 10,000 once good braincells.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Brennus on Thu Aug 21 12:25:45 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Brennus wrote:
    vallor <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day
    there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, >>>>>>>>> I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked >>>>>>>>> one of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none. >>>>>>>>> He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I >>>>>>>>> think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at
    Microsoft.  It's not just about being a good person, it's >>>>>>>>> about delivering something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an
    overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this
    problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux
    for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public
    beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.Â
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg
    in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my
    news servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    Only fags use line-sux and apples.


    That's right only wiener windups use Linux.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Tony on Thu Aug 21 17:01:31 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:24:12 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in <KKHpQ.10871$[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in
    <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day
    there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I >>>>>>>>> slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one >>>>>>>>> of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none.  He's a >>>>>>>>> computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a >>>>>>>>> lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at Microsoft.  >>>>>>>>> It's not just about being a good person, it's about delivering >>>>>>>>> something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an
    overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this
    problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the best >>>>>>>> minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of development has >>>>>>>> at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux for >>>>>> an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public beta >>>>>> test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche. 
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg
    in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than Sam
    Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device, which
    smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    If you were smart you'd get off of that Linux shit because each use
    destroys like 10,000 once good braincells.

    That's what the blue meanies want you to think.

    ObLinux:

    $ lscpu
    Architecture: x86_64
    CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
    Address sizes: 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
    Byte Order: Little Endian
    CPU(s): 64
    On-line CPU(s) list: 0-63
    Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
    Model name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
    Processor
    CPU family: 23
    Model: 49
    Thread(s) per core: 2
    Core(s) per socket: 32
    [...]

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Janithor@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 10:53:21 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    x-no-archive: yes

    On 8/20/2025 11:57 AM, vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:42:00 -0700, Janithor <[email protected]> wrote
    in <10806n9$3c35i$[email protected]>:

    x-no-archive: yes

    On 8/18/2025 11:51 AM, vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:32:37 +0000, jojo <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:10:33 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote in <tWooQ.49296$[email protected]>:

    On 8/16/25 11:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:48:34 +0100, Mr Ön!on wrote:
    jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

    do you have pirated software?

    Whatever for? I have a Mac, it comes with everything I need.

    After you’ve bought a Mac, it better come with everything you need, >>>>>>> because you won’t have much left over.


    Not only in cash, but in SSD space! ;)

    Dumb.

    _[/Users/vallor]_(vallor@Mac-Studio)🍏_
    $ df -h .
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
    /dev/disk3s5 926Gi 367Gi 528Gi 41% 2.0M 5.5G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

    And backs up to a timecapsule on my Linux workstation.

    _[/srv/Extreme_Pro]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
    $ du -sh timemachine
    592G timemachine

    "She's fast enough for your old man." -Han Solo


    are you very rich?

    You don't have to be "rich" to buy a Mac. Where have you been?

    And us? We're "comfortable", but I tend to give away the farm to
    causes I believe in. Try:

    https://aclu.org
    https://au.org
    https://amnesty.org

    And for those about to hit the "flame" button -- you should _really_
    get upset if I mention how many "blue billionaires" there are
    in California.

    So jojo: "If you're so smart, why ain't _you_ rich?"


    Doesn't it embarrass you to be so predictable? Like a cartoon.

    You must be one of those people getting really upset.

    Nope. I just know you can do better than that.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 21 18:15:14 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:02:12 -0700, % <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:24:12 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote in
    <KKHpQ.10871$[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, I >>>>>>>>>>> slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked one >>>>>>>>>>> of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none.  He's a >>>>>>>>>>> computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I think a >>>>>>>>>>> lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at Microsoft. >>>>>>>>>>> It's not just about being a good person, it's about delivering >>>>>>>>>>> something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an >>>>>>>>>> overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this >>>>>>>>>> problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux >>>>>>>> for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's public >>>>>>>> beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche.
    LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square peg >>>>> in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long until
    their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the Linux
    shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than Sam
    Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    If you were smart you'd get off of that Linux shit because each use
    destroys like 10,000 once good braincells.

    That's what the blue meanies want you to think.

    ObLinux:

    $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64
    CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Address sizes:
    43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual Byte Order: Little
    Endian
    CPU(s): 64
    On-line CPU(s) list: 0-63
    Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
    Model name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
    Processor
    CPU family: 23 Model: 49 Thread(s)
    per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 32
    [...]

    but we have all the kernels

    Oh thanks, that reminded me to check kernel.org -- and woot,
    there is fresh Linux there.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "Interstellar Matter is a Gas"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From vallor@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Aug 21 18:21:13 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On 21 Aug 2025 18:15:14 GMT, vallor <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:02:12 -0700, % <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:24:12 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote
    in <KKHpQ.10871$[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:19:53 -0400, Tony <[email protected]> wrote >>>>> in <clopQ.115486$[email protected]>:

    % wrote:
    Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:thnnQ.3221$PR33.2569 @fx08.iad:

    On 8/13/25 8:46 PM, Brennus wrote:
    "Joel W. Crump" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:W4anQ.24716$[email protected]:
    On 8/13/25 8:21 PM, Lane the Caustic wrote:

    When I was going to school at Northface University, one day >>>>>>>>>>>> there was a guest speaker from Microsoft.  Needless to say, >>>>>>>>>>>> I slept through the entire thing.  This school I once asked >>>>>>>>>>>> one of the teacher about ethics and he said he had none.  >>>>>>>>>>>> He's a computer scientist.  It's this sort of thing that I >>>>>>>>>>>> think a lack of ethics has led to an inferior product at >>>>>>>>>>>> Microsoft. It's not just about being a good person, it's >>>>>>>>>>>> about delivering something worthwhile too.

    It gets me how Windows 2000 and XP were both reasonably stable >>>>>>>>>>> upon release, but *loaded* with security bugs, requiring an >>>>>>>>>>> overhaul subsequent to their releases; Linux never had this >>>>>>>>>>> problem, not remotely on that scale.  M$ has had some of the >>>>>>>>>>> best minds in the industry, but their frantic pace of
    development has at times meant harm to consumers.

    Any more breaking news for us?


    I didn't say it was only in that instance.  I first used Linux >>>>>>>>> for an extended period in 2019-2021, avoiding Windows 10's
    public beta test.


    Post something interesting or entertaining or haul ass, douche. >>>>>>>> LMAO!

    get a room

    You knowZ what happens these bozo's with their Linux like square
    peg in the round hole. They stare into kaleidoscopes all day long
    until their brains turn to mashed potatoes and then they run to the >>>>>> Linux shit and tell everyone who great it is after their brain
    shortcircuited.

    Linux is everywhere -- it's all around you.

    My phone runs Linux, my Fire TV runs Linux, my Roku runs Linux,
    my DNS server runs Linux, my NAS runs Linux, a couple of my news
    servers run Linux...

    About the only place Linux doesn't dominate is the ever-shrinking
    desktop market. But Linux still has more market share there than
    Sam Adams has market share of beer.

    Handheld gaming? Linux. Unless you buy that new Windows device,
    which smart people are upgrading to SteamOS (Linux).

    And where are you, Tony? Lost in the 90's.


    If you were smart you'd get off of that Linux shit because each use
    destroys like 10,000 once good braincells.

    That's what the blue meanies want you to think.

    ObLinux:

    $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64
    CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Address sizes:
    43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual Byte Order: Little
    Endian
    CPU(s): 64
    On-line CPU(s) list: 0-63
    Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
    Model name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
    Processor
    CPU family: 23 Model: 49 Thread(s)
    per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 32
    [...]

    but we have all the kernels

    Oh thanks, that reminded me to check kernel.org -- and woot,
    there is fresh Linux there.

    ObLinux:

    My script for building Linux:

    $ cat go.sh
    time -p make -j64

    Invoke it like this:

    $ nohup ./go.sh &

    Then you can watch what's going on without overdriving
    the terminal like this:

    $ while : ; do tail -15 nohup.out ; date; sleep 5 ; done

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.1 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "A Bugless Program is an Abstract Theoretical Concept."

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tony on Thu Aug 21 21:50:57 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:24:12 -0400, Tony wrote:

    If you were smart you'd get off of that Linux shit because each use
    destroys like 10,000 once good braincells.

    Presumably you are living testament to what Windows does to braincells?

    You keep on using that kind of stuff, and your intellectual skills ... Mightgrowsoft.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 18:47:38 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:59:46 -0400, Tony wrote:

    Linuxz has even more bugs and critters but the hackers know all the
    bozos who use Linux don't have a plug nickle to their name so that's
    the reason Linux never getZ hacked.

    Interestingly enough, it did use to get hacked a lot more before, when
    it was less popular <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linux_malware#Threats>.


    I never use it because if something doesn't work I smash it and hoof it.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 21 18:49:37 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    % wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:59:12 -0500, Lane the Caustic
    <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    chrisv wrote:
    Lane the Caustic wrote:

    What I'm saying is that if I have a personal computer, it had better >>>>>> have a word processor.  The way Windows has it set up is pay $65/yr >>>>>> extra for a word processor.  This is such utter bullshit.  I can't >>>>>> even pay for it once and have the expense go away.

    If someone can't be bothered to google for "free office suite" or "MS >>>>> office substitute", that's their problem.


    Neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice are Word and at least one of them
    includes non sequitur advertisement.  My dollars are supposed to be a >>>> vote for what I want and what I want them to vote for is a third party >>>> to end the Word monopoly and sell me some good word processing software >>>> for a reaonable price that says, "FUCK YOU MICROENCEPHALASOFT"

    So go buy WordPerfect and STFU.

    I'm pretty sure that's obsolete.

    Lane the Caustic <[email protected]>

    LibreOffice is for them Frenchies those F-R-O-G-S

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Fri Aug 22 01:03:17 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:31:34 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    ... using PowerShell is in many ways as advanced as the Unix terminal.

    Microsoft spent years, decades, conditioning its users to be allergic to
    the command line. Now it has done a full 180°, and is desperately trying
    to say that the command line is “cool” again.

    PowerShell is an example of why the Windows command line is fundamentally broken.

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tony on Fri Aug 22 01:03:55 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:47:38 -0400, Tony wrote:

    I never use it because if something doesn't work I smash it and hoof it.

    I wonder how you manage with the frequent breakages in Dimdows, then?

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Fri Aug 22 02:24:52 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:16:12 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    On 8/21/25 9:03 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    PowerShell is an example of why the Windows command line is
    fundamentally broken.

    That's your spin, but you're wrong ...

    It is as I say, you know. It inherits the old DEC-style command line
    of a simple string buffer, together with the assumption that spawning
    processes has to be mediated by a shell. The *nix concept of one
    process directly creating another doesn’t go well with that.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/10/rust_critical_vulnerability_windows/>

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 22 02:30:09 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:25:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote in <1088kf1$1a7cu$[email protected]>:

    setsid >> nohup

    1) I really wish you wouldn't snip context. I know we played
    with that before, but c'mon...

    2) nohup outputs to nohup.out, which is part of what I want.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.2 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "The most expensive component is the one that breaks."

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 22 02:59:37 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:57:51 -0700, % <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:25:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro
    <[email protected]d> wrote in <1088kf1$1a7cu$[email protected]>:

    setsid >> nohup

    1) I really wish you wouldn't snip context. I know we played with that
    before, but c'mon...

    2) nohup outputs to nohup.out, which is part of what I want.

    you owe me

    I'll bite:

    1) why?
    2) what?

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
    OS: Linux 6.16.2 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18
    NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G
    "binary tree n.: see binary tree and binary tree."

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 02:25:38 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    setsid >> nohup

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Joel W. Crump on Fri Aug 22 04:15:52 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:33:25 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

    On 8/21/25 10:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    PowerShell is an example of why the Windows command line is
    fundamentally broken.

    That's your spin, but you're wrong ...

    It is as I say, you know. It inherits the old DEC-style command
    line of a simple string buffer, together with the assumption that
    spawning processes has to be mediated by a shell. The *nix concept
    of one process directly creating another doesn’t go well with that.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/10/rust_critical_vulnerability_windows/>

    PowerShell gives one a way to do more or less the same functions as
    Unix would.

    In theory, yes. In practice, the whole underlying architecture is
    flawed.

    Another example: <https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/06/php-vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-run-malicious-code-on-windows-servers/>

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  • From jojo@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 22 16:28:03 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    % wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:57:51 -0700, % <[email protected]>
    wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:25:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro
    <[email protected]d> wrote in <1088kf1$1a7cu$[email protected]>:

    setsid >> nohup

    1) I really wish you wouldn't snip context.  I know we played
    with that
    before, but c'mon...

    2) nohup outputs to nohup.out, which is part of what I want.

    you owe me

    I'll bite:

    1) why?
    2) what?

    i showed you the kernel you didn't have

    if you plant a kernel, will it grow?

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Tony on Sat Aug 23 02:39:26 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:49:37 -0400, Tony wrote:

    LibreOffice is for them Frenchies ...

    Open Source does tend to do a better job of international support than proprietary software does, yes.

    Perhaps that’s why you find a more international group among Open Source users than, say, Microsoft or Apple users.

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  • From Brennus@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Aug 23 13:58:31 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <[email protected]d> wrote in news:108b9ku$1u3ai$[email protected]:

    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:49:37 -0400, Tony wrote:

    LibreOffice is for them Frenchies ...

    Open Source does tend to do a better job of international support than proprietary software does, yes.

    Perhaps that’s why you find a more international group among Open
    Source users than, say, Microsoft or Apple users.


    They all broke ass niggas is why.

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  • From Lane the Caustic@21:1/5 to jojo on Sat Aug 23 12:38:18 2025
    XPost: alt.slack

    jojo wrote:
    % wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:57:51 -0700, % <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:25:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro
    <[email protected]d> wrote in <1088kf1$1a7cu$[email protected]>:

    setsid >> nohup

    1) I really wish you wouldn't snip context.  I know we played with
    that
    before, but c'mon...

    2) nohup outputs to nohup.out, which is part of what I want.

    you owe me

    I'll bite:

    1) why?
    2) what?

    i showed you the kernel you didn't have

    if you plant a kernel, will it grow?

    Not if it is rotten. Rotten food spoils and is reduced from what you have.

    --
    n

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